Australia is following America’s bad example

By Andrys Onsman. For those in Australia who took advantage of the brief moment in the 1970s when the country’s higher education system was free, it was heartwarming to see students in streets demanding that the government reverse its determination to deregulate the HE system. Augmented by those who turn up at any protest, students vented their anger at the prospect of universities becoming deregulated and mimicking patterns that define higher education in the USA. Christopher Pyne, the Minister for Education suggested that. Read more...