By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). The NTEU says that if the Minister for Education, Christopher Pyne, caves into the demands of Group of Eight and some other university Vice-Chancellors and lifts the existing caps on fees charged to government supported university students, then days of $100,000 university degree will not be far off. According to a report in today’s Australian by Andrew Trounson one of the authors of Demand Driven Funding Review, Andrew Norton, is concerned that the removal of the price gap could result in excessive fee hikes. More...