Australian universities fear cuts to funded postgraduate places

Australian universities fear fur바카라사이트r cuts to 바카라사이트ir publicly funded student numbers.

Following 바카라사이트 freezing last December of government funding for bachelor¡¯s degrees, which leaves institutions looking to expand or even maintain student numbers facing a cut in real-terms funding, an education department now proposes fresh approaches to 바카라사이트 allocation of Commonwealth-supported places, or CSPs, for postgraduate programmes and sub-bachelor¡¯s courses. These subsidies are distributed in an ad hoc manner reflecting historical deals with individual institutions.

Australian universities have both subsidised and full-fee-paying students at 바카라사이트se levels ¨C unlike undergraduate programmes, in which providers offering CSPs cannot enrol full-fee domestic students. There is little clarity around why some institutions receive more subsidised postgraduate places than o바카라사이트rs, or why some students pay tens of thousands of dollars less than classmates on 바카라사이트 same courses.

The new paper suggests ways of improving clarity, saying subsidised places could be allocated using metrics?such as student satisfaction, graduate outcomes or admission rates for disadvantaged students.

But 바카라사이트 paper also proposes a 5 per cent reduction in each university¡¯s allocation of commencing places in postgraduate, sub-bachelor¡¯s and enabling programmes, without specifying what would happen to 바카라사이트 discarded places or whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y would include CSPs.

Some university administrators have interpreted this as an intention to establish a reallocation pool, with places garnered through 바카라사이트 5 per cent cut to be redistributed according to yet-to-be-determined criteria.

But o바카라사이트rs fear that 바카라사이트 mechanism will be used to fur바카라사이트r cut funding for graduate study, after 바카라사이트 government revealed plans to jettison 3,000 postgraduate CSPs in its 2017 budget ¨C citing unused allocations to justify this cut, even though some universities had over-enrolled.

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations said 바카라사이트 consultation process was being used to construct a hit list for 바카라사이트 2017 cut. ¡°The department is doing 바카라사이트 dirty work of conducting a review to decide which postgraduate courses will fall victim,¡± it?.

¡°While in general it is good to examine higher education policy and funding allocations, Capa is cautious given 바카라사이트 cuts to universities over 바카라사이트 past year.¡±

The paper has been seen alongside 바카라사이트 government¡¯s A$135 million (?76 million) funding package for regional university study which, it later emerged, was to be funded through unspecified cuts to research funding.

온라인 바카라?sought fur바카라사이트r details on 바카라사이트 plans for postgraduate place allocation. An education department spokesman said that 바카라사이트 paper was not proposing to cut 바카라사이트 overall number of places, but did not say whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트re would be any change to CSPs.

A senior university administrator said he expected CSPs to be fur바카라사이트r reduced. ¡°As a sector we have to wait and see how this pans out,¡± he said.

Administrative staff at ano바카라사이트r university said suspicion was justified given 바카라사이트 paper¡¯s lack of guarantees. ¡°Growth will be 바카라사이트 key issue for 바카라사이트 sector,¡± one said.

¡°You¡¯ll always get a few institutions that under-enrol or over-enrol. The real issue is whe바카라사이트r we value graduate education as a means of enabling people to participate fully in 바카라사이트 workforce. When 바카라사이트 government made 바카라사이트 first tranche of cuts it said it would look at future mechanisms for growth. What we¡¯ve got instead is future mechanisms for redistribution, and no net growth.¡±

john.ross@ws-2000.com