HELP from Down Under? – ‘It’s not only on the cricket pitch that we can learn from Australia’

As the Australian Education Minister, Christopher Pyne, touches down in the UK on a fact-finding trip, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes two new comparisons of the English and Australian higher education systems:

• A summary report: A comparison of student loans in England and Australia by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI
• A detailed analysis: A comparison of higher education funding in England and Australia: what can we learn? by Libby Hackett, Chief Executive of University Alliance and a visiting Research Fellow in Higher Education Policy at the University of the West of England

Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said:
‘England and Australia have many things in common. That includes dealing with the costs of a mass higher education system via student loans. More...