Students meeting skill needs ‘should be subsidised, not indebted’

Graeme Turner, with a background showing a variety of people entering university and leaving as cloned business people. To illustrate market logic has converted universities from publicly oriented educators of citizens to workforce training institutions.

‘Broken’ Australian sector needs major overhaul: humanities guru

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People walk down a dusty outback road, their abandoned mortar boards behind them

Has Australia fallen out of love with higher education?

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Students meeting skill needs ‘should be subsidised, not indebted’

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