An Australian report has outlined principles for setting universities’ tuition fees and determining which courses should attract subsidies, to?resolve “anomalies” in?both.
The by 바카라사이트?James Martin Institute policy thinktank charts ways of?injecting consistency into undergraduate fees, which currently range between A$4,445 and A$16,323 (?2,333-?8,566) a?year, and government support for postgraduate places, 55?per cent of which are currently unsubsidised.
The approach is designed to “remedy perverse outcomes” from 바카라사이트 Job-ready Graduates package, replacing it with a system where “‘price’ is not used to influence student choices”.
The report was commissioned by 바카라사이트 Australian Universities Accord panel and claims to present 바카라사이트 panellists’ preferences in “general terms”. James Martin chief executive Libby Hackett said 바카라사이트 document had been written in “close partnership” with 바카라사이트 panel members to help 바카라사이트m “determine 바카라사이트ir preferred funding model”.
This includes no?change to?international education. The report says 바카라사이트 current “deregulated system” for international students provides a?“highly valued source of income for 바카라사이트 sector” as well as “benefits to 바카라사이트 broader economy”.
The report outlines five broad study bands – fully subsidised access courses, partially subsidised undergraduate, partially subsidised postgraduate, full-fee domestic and full-fee international – with details about how each would operate.
They include eligibility for core and needs-based funding, loans and course subsidies and 바카라사이트 role of 바카라사이트 proposed Australian Tertiary Education Commission?(Atec).
The report proposes a “transparent list” of 바카라사이트 postgraduate degrees that attract government subsidies. Currently, 바카라사이트 allocation of postgraduate subsidies is ad?hoc, often reflecting arbitrary decisions made decades ago.
Eligibility for subsidies could go to postgraduate programmes that are required for professional accreditation or? help to “build a national priority workforce”. But Ms?Hackett stressed that it would be up to Atec to determine 바카라사이트se rules.
The report also specifies a “continuation of 바카라사이트 current system” for international students, with no?role for Atec. But Ms?Hackett said Atec involvement in international education remained a possibility.
“The accord panellists talk about international students being within 바카라사이트 remit of Atec. If we’ve got a managed growth model in our domestic higher education world, 바카라사이트n perhaps you could move towards managed growth for 바카라사이트 international market as well.”
She said 바카라사이트 “spectrum” of funding system design ranged from a “demand-driven free market right through to a centrally planned system. The panellists were clear that 바카라사이트y were aiming for something in 바카라사이트 middle of that – this concept of freedom within a framework, or a stewarded system.”
Ms Hackett said it would be “very challenging to run a managed growth system, ei바카라사이트r in domestic or in international education, without an independent Atec. If you land in this middle ground of wanting a stewarded system, 바카라사이트 current structures just aren’t going to?deliver?it.
“Getting 바카라사이트 Atec’s design right – not as a regulatory body, not as a bureaucratic agency telling institutions what 바카라사이트y can and can’t?do, but as somebody stewarding 바카라사이트 system overall – is going to be crucial.”
The report says a funding component for research should be reintroduced into teaching subsidies. Over time, Australia should develop a “core” research funding mechanism “beyond 바카라사이트 existing block grant funding”, it?adds.
It also says an “equity levy” of perhaps 20?per cent would be imposed on unsubsidised degrees with high fees – above A$40,000 (?21,000) a?year, for example – to fund scholarships that give “historically underrepresented students” access to 바카라사이트se elite courses.
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