Funding freeze is a Catch 22 (Advocate 25 02)

On 14 June, the ABC published data obtained under Freedom of Information from the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training which showed how much the Department expected each university’s funding to be reduced as a consequence of the funding freeze announced as part of the Turnbull Government’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) Statement of December 2017. The data revealed that, as a result of the freeze, universities will be more than $2 billion worse off over the period 2018 to 2021. More...