The government is making ‘job-ready’ degrees cheaper for students – but cutting funding to the same courses
- Written by Ian Marshman, Honorary Principal Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
One objective of the government’s recently announced funding changes for universities is to increase the number of graduates in areas of expected employment growth – such as teaching, nursing, agriculture, STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) and IT.
The education minister said student fees in these degrees would drop. But...