New report shows there is no crisis in higher education funding

By Paul Kniest. A recently released LH Martin Institute paper entitled Resourcing Australia’s tertiary education sector authored by Mark Warburton (October 2016) provides a comprehensive analysis of funding of tertiary education (both higher education and VET) over the last decade or so.  It concludes that there has not been a blowout in higher education funding as is being argued by the government and that the government’s vision of a deregulated market with the provision of income contingent loans is destined to certain failure. More...