An arts degree for the price of a law degree? Universities call for radical rethink

By Matthew Knott . Under the current system, undergraduate law and accounting students can be charged up to $10,440 a year while humanities, teaching and nursing students are charged $6256 a year. The federal government allocates all undergraduate subjects to one of eight different funding bands, based on a formula including how much graduates are expected to earn and how much courses cost to teach. More...