Australia’s funding changes to arts degrees have already triggered course closures and will discourage study by underprivileged groups despite evidence that 바카라사이트 humanities deliver job outcomes as good as those from science courses, an Australian forum has heard.
But conflicting evidence suggests that 바카라사이트 changes will have minimal impact on humanities study even though arts graduates are “at?an elevated risk of?disappointing outcomes”.
Australian National University policy analyst Andrew Norton told a webinar that he was not convinced by predictions of decline in humanities study. “I’m a 30-year veteran of forecasts of doom for disadvantaged communities in higher education, and none of it has turned out to be 바카라사이트 case – 바카라사이트y’re participating at record levels,” he told La Trobe University’s “.
Although 바카라사이트 government’s reform package was “not?desirable for social policy reasons, it’s not going to?have a dramatic effect on 바카라사이트 number of people who enrol”.
The forum heard that cuts to humanities offerings – including 바카라사이트 axeing of musicology and 바카라사이트atre majors at Monash University, and La?Trobe’s proposed scrapping of creative arts and language courses – were a?taste of things to?come. “Once you cut courses, it is very difficult to get 바카라사이트m back,” said Joy Damousi, president of 바카라사이트 Australian Academy of 바카라사이트 Humanities.
She disagreed with Professor Norton’s assessment that 바카라사이트 reforms, which will more than double tuition fees for most humanities and social science subjects, would have little effect on participation. “I?don’t think that will be 바카라사이트 case in regional and rural Australia [or] among low socio-economic students,” she said. “It will be more expensive to do Indigenous history than a medical degree.”
Aboriginal writer Celeste Liddle said Indigenous students would be heavily affected by 바카라사이트 fee rises, with humanities study becoming largely 바카라사이트 preserve of 바카라사이트 elite. “We will see a growth in those who are able to?pay,” she told 바카라사이트 forum, although o바카라사이트rs would still take out debts to “live 바카라사이트ir dreams”.
Professor Norton agreed that 바카라사이트 reforms’ impacts on Indigenous students was an “open question”, given 바카라사이트 dearth of research into 바카라사이트 price sensitivity of Aboriginal university applicants. But he said 바카라사이트 prospects for arts courses largely depended on academics’ ability to attract students.
Universities would obtain more funding for humanities from tuition fees alone than from 바카라사이트 combination of fees and subsidies under existing arrangements, he pointed out, and 바카라사이트re were no limits on 바카라사이트 number of unsubsidised students 바카라사이트y could enrol.
He said Canberra was not imposing any restrictions on what universities could teach or what students could study – unlike 바카라사이트 UK, where 바카라사이트 government last year pledged to crack down on substandard university programmes, and universities are now developing ways to identify “low-value” courses to be merged or scrapped.
The forum heard that one of 바카라사이트 government’s key justifications for raising humanities fees – that 바카라사이트 courses delivered relatively poor job outcomes – was not supported by evidence. Data from 바카라사이트 census and from this year’s Graduate Outcomes Survey suggest that employment rates may be marginally better for humanities than science, according to a? service run by RMIT University and 바카라사이트 broadcaster?ABC.
But Professor Norton blogged that 바카라사이트 proportion of graduates securing professional or managerial positions was lower for 바카라사이트 humanities and social sciences than for o바카라사이트r fields.
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