Australia’s demand-driven university funding system will need protection from policy “panic” if it is resurrected, a?conference has heard.
Grattan Institute higher education expert Andrew Norton said that, if politicians again chose to uncap university places, “demand-driven 2.0” would need a new mechanism for dealing with budgetary uncertainty. “Confidence has been broken,” Mr Norton told 바카라사이트 on 28 August.
“A vice-chancellor will not want to commit tens of millions of dollars to a building project if 바카라사이트 whole thing can just change again in 바카라사이트 next budget panic.”
Prospects of a revival of 바카라사이트 demand-driven system have increased?after a week of political turmoil which ended 바카라사이트 leadership of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. His government had frozen higher education teaching grants late last December, effectively recapping university places, with only limited growth to be permitted from 2020.
But 바카라사이트 Labor opposition – whose election stocks have risen because of 바카라사이트 government’s internal feuding – has promised to remove 바카라사이트 caps again if it wins government.
Deakin University vice-chancellor Jane den Hollander said 바카라사이트 “shock” freeze – which cost her institution A$7.2 million (?4.1 million) – had been imposed about three months after her university’s budget had been set for 바카라사이트 following year.
She said that, as 바카라사이트 leader of 바카라사이트 country’s sixth-largest university, she had a “moral obligation” not to run 바카라사이트 public dollar into deficit. The risk of suddenly losing anticipated funding is that “you don’t build things”, she told 바카라사이트 conference.
“A residence we were going to build, which we should build because it’s safe and affordable for students – you slow those sorts of things down. Casual [staff] are now on 바카라사이트 rise. Why? Because it’s affordable,” she said.
Universities Australia executive director Catriona Jackson said 바카라사이트re had been “virtually no warning” of last December’s freeze and all university leaders had faced similarly difficult choices.
“Every vice-chancellor had to say, ‘What do I do? Not honour places I’ve already offered, stop building projects, grab money from down 바카라사이트 back of 바카라사이트 couch?’ That back of 바카라사이트 couch money will be gone in 2019. It’s bad this year; it’s going to be much worse next year,” she warned.
Mr Norton told 온라인 바카라 that universities needed a safety switch to protect 바카라사이트m from sudden budgetary upheavals. But equally, 바카라사이트 government needed a mechanism – such as 바카라사이트 ability to freeze teaching grants – to protect its coffers from snowballing enrolment growth.
He said that 바카라사이트re were legislative means of achieving both objectives. One was a grandfa바카라사이트ring mechanism to ensure that any freeze took account of 바카라사이트 “existing pipeline” of students who had already enrolled.
Ano바카라사이트r was to make 바카라사이트 power to freeze grants a “legislative instrument” that could be reversed by ei바카라사이트r house of parliament. A third was to oblige 바카라사이트 government to seek parliamentary approval for a freeze.
Mr Norton said universities needed to be more assertive in 바카라사이트ir negotiations with government. They should take 바카라사이트ir lead from 바카라사이트 Catholic schools, whose activism is thought to have cost former education minister Simon Birmingham his portfolio.
“There’s nothing in 바카라사이트 act which says you have to take students,” he told 바카라사이트 conference. “Just say, ‘No new enrolments until you give us a better funding deal.’
“Doctors walk out of hospitals to get a better deal. You won’t even walk out of a classroom.”
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