The end of public higher education in Australia

By Paul Kniest. Australia’s system of public higher education will come to end if Christopher Pyne and Tony Abbott are successful in getting their proposed changes to higher education regulation and funding through both houses of Parliament. No longer will entry into a public university be determined on the basis of a student’s academic ability but on their ability to pay.  In the new privatised higher education sector merit will no longer matter, money will. More...