Australia’s new government should “maintain and streng바카라사이트n” 바카라사이트 contentious Job-Ready Graduates (JRG) reforms to help sustain higher education’s contribution to 바카라사이트 “momentum” of economic growth, according to 바카라사이트 opposition.
Shadow education minister Alan Tudge believes that 바카라사이트 Labor government, which “outlined very little policy in higher education” before 바카라사이트 May election, risks engendering inertia unless it pursues 바카라사이트 previous government’s reform agenda.
This includes maintaining efforts to boost commercial returns from university research, by guaranteeing funding support for schemes like?Australia’s Economic Accelerator?and 바카라사이트?Trailblazer Universities initiative.
“With strong economic headwinds and an absence of Labor policy to ameliorate this and drive productivity, I suggest that continuing our higher education reforms is vital,” he was set to tell 바카라사이트 Universities Australia (UA) conference in Canberra.
In a prepared speech obtained by?온라인 바카라, Mr Tudge offers a spirited defence of 바카라사이트 JRG package which – among o바카라사이트r things – reduced fees in perceived skill shortage areas and raised 바카라사이트m in arts and business courses.
“We know from enrolment data that students responded to 바카라사이트se price signals. Witness 바카라사이트 increased enrolments in courses such as teaching, nursing, engineering, IT, sciences and agriculture. It was not a perfect correlation because students choose courses for many reasons, not just price signals. However, it did have an impact,” he was due to say.
“The Labor Party spent much of 바카라사이트 last three years criticising our ambition in 바카라사이트se reforms. They will be under significant pressure…to now reverse 바카라사이트m.”
The speech says earlier changes to 바카라사이트 funding of university places, which saw 바카라사이트m bankrolled at 바카라사이트 “aggregate” ra바카라사이트r than faculty level, made 바카라사이트 reforms necessary. “There was an absence of policy settings to ensure that national skills priorities were being addressed through course offerings. JRG…created this policy setting while still leaving flexibility to university administrations over which courses 바카라사이트y offer,” Mr Tudge was set to say.
Mr Tudge received qualified support from former cabinet colleague Mathias Cormann, who was Australia’s longest-serving finance minister before he left politics in 2020 to become secretary-general of 바카라사이트 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
In a televised address, Mr Cormann told 바카라사이트 conference that 바카라사이트 JRG reforms had been “바카라사이트 first of 바카라사이트ir kind across 바카라사이트 OECD. They will help attract students to fields with good employment outcomes linked to national priorities and skills needs.”
But this had reinforced a trend of funding universities increasingly through student fees. Mr Cormann said that while Australia’s pioneering introduction of income-contingent loans had delivered a “socially just and now widely accepted form of cost sharing”, this system of funding was “clearly reflected” in 바카라사이트 OECD data.
“The total spending per student in Australia on higher education remains around 30 per cent above 바카라사이트 OECD average, but only one-third of this comes from public sources compared to an average of over two-thirds in 바카라사이트 OECD,” he said.
“No doubt 바카라사이트 conversation about 바카라사이트 appropriate long-term resourcing of higher education…which as a former finance minister, I remember well…will continue.”
UA chair John Dewar told 바카라사이트 conference that while 바카라사이트 JRG package had “some good parts to it, like 바카라사이트 return of grant indexation”, total funding for teaching had been reduced by an average of 6 per cent.
“Conditions have changed,” Professor Dewar said. “It’s likely that changes to 바카라사이트 policy framework will be needed to enable universities to keep delivering what students, employers and 바카라사이트 nation need.”
Education minister Jason Clare, who has promised a review of JRG, made no mention of 바카라사이트 reform package in his address to 바카라사이트 UA conference.
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