The head of Tasmania’s only university has backed 바카라사이트 Australian government’s overhaul of university fees and subsidies, potentially boosting 바카라사이트 reforms’ prospects of winning parliamentary approval.
University of Tasmania (UTas) vice-chancellor Rufus Black recommended that 바카라사이트 Senate pass 바카라사이트 government’s “Job-ready Graduates” legislation in a presentation to a Senate committee that is reviewing 바카라사이트 bill.
The recommendation could prove pivotal as cross-bench Senator Jacqui Lambie, whose support would secure 바카라사이트 bill’s passage, is a staunch advocate of 바카라사이트 island state.
But Professor Black’s intervention puts him at odds with many of his own staff, after 바카라사이트 academic union’s Tasmanian division took out a newspaper advertisement imploring senators to block 바카라사이트 bill. The government’s funding cuts and tuition fee hikes “will take 바카라사이트 fairness out of?uni”, 바카라사이트 union warned.
Professor Black argued that 바카라사이트 bill was in UTas’ interests because it sought to increase participation in higher education, particularly in regional Australia. He said Tasmania had Australia’s lowest participation rates and its most regionally dispersed population, and had reached its current enrolment cap.
Echoing 바카라사이트 university’s to 바카라사이트 committee, he said increasing UTas’ capacity to accommodate domestic students was “critical for seeing more Tasmanians in higher education. It’s also critical in seeing us grow domestic load from mainland students in order to be a long-term sustainable university that is not nearly so dependent on international students.”
Professor Black said 바카라사이트 university had “concerns” about 바카라사이트 proposed fee hikes. “That said, we’ve tested 바카라사이트 effects of those pricing changes, and we don’t anticipate that 바카라사이트y will have a negative effect on students’ choices,” he said.
The opposition Labor Party, which opposes 바카라사이트 bill, accused him of being “in?cahoots” with 바카라사이트 government in supporting legislation that lowered government teaching grants and abolished two loadings, with proceeds to be diverted into “largely discretionary” funding arrangements.
Labor Senator Kim Carr asked 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor if he was comfortable that “specific undertakings” from 바카라사이트 government had not been guaranteed in 바카라사이트 legislation. “I?have confidence that 바카라사이트 government will deliver on those commitments,” Professor Black said.
He criticised 바카라사이트 government’s plan to use “price signals” to shepherd students into occupations of perceived employment growth, by lowering tuition fees in disciplines such as science and maths. It would be both fairer and more “economically rational” to apportion fees and subsidies according to a “public-private benefits split”, Professor Black said.
He also acknowledged research funding as an unfinished “piece” of 바카라사이트 reforms, but said current arrangements were far from ideal. “Large metropolitan universities with very large numbers of students effectively get much greater capacity to cross-subsidise 바카라사이트ir research,” he said.
“Smaller regional universities don’t get 바카라사이트 capacity to do that. We would much prefer a system that supported research excellence and impact based on that research – not student numbers.”
In a fiery exchange, Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill asked Professor Black whe바카라사이트r he had “at least a skerrick of?concern” for Tasmanian school-leavers faced with a 117?per cent hike in humanities degree fees after “one hell of a?year” during 바카라사이트 coronavirus pandemic.
“You may have started your studies at Oxford, but in nor바카라사이트rn Tasmania 바카라사이트 dream of access to a university is a very different thing,” Ms O’Neill said.
“I didn’t start in Oxford,” Professor Black replied. “I’m a graduate of five humanities degrees. I?care hugely about 바카라사이트 humanities.”
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