Labor has announced plans to cut student debt by 20 per cent but a planned government commission could permanently change fee structures.
The Federal Court will hear an Australian-first case after five students allegedly used a major company to cheat on their work.
Australia will go to the polls with Labor proposing to slash student debts by 20 per cent and the Coalition lashing it as a burden on the rest of the country.
If we give a $16 billion tax break to people on higher incomes who went to university,then we’ll have to get that pound of flesh from the people who didn’t.
Neurodivergent students and staff at the University of Melbourne previously “struggled in silence”. That’s changing,thanks to these three researchers.
The university has accused the government of providing misleading figures about its foreign student cohort.
Student debt has reached about $81 billion. The government receives far more in student repayments than it does from the gas industry through the petroleum resource rent tax.
Tradespeople and university graduates will have a fifth of their student loans wiped in a striking Labor pledge to ease the debt burden on younger Australians.
The salary threshold at which student loans must be repaid will rise more than $10,000 a year under a federal Labor policy shift that will make the average HELP debt-holder $680 a year better off.
Big universities are increasingly relying on philanthropy to fund major projects.
University debts could be slashed by up to 20 per cent under an Albanese government plan targeted at young voters.