Plans to deregulate university funding suffer another fatal blow in the Senate today

By Paul Kniest (NTEU National Office). The prospect of the government’s ambitions to deregulate higher education and open up Commonwealth funding to non-university higher education providers suffered another blow in the Senate today when a motion, moved by Senators Wang (WA), Day (SA) and Leyonhjelm (NSW), to extend Commonwealth funding to not-for-profit private higher education providers (see below), failed to pass the Senate. More...