Desperate tinkering doesn't address $100,000 degrees

By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). The NTEU has today hit back at Christopher Pyne’s compromise higher education package, saying that tinkering around the edges wouldn’t address soaring fees under a deregulated system.
Speaking from Canberra today, where the NTEU are talking to cross-bench Senators about the disastrous impact deregulation will have on universities and students, Assistant National Secretary Matthew McGowan said that the amendments were a desperate, last ditch attempt to hide the true impact of deregulation. More...