Post-pandemic, wealthy Australian universities are attracting more investment and richer international students, while poorer institutions struggle to educate the bulk of students. COVID-19 has widened the prosperity divide among Australian universities, leaving richer institutions with the means to keep expanding while their poorer cousins are downsizing perhaps permanently. A Times Higher Education analysis of Australian universities’ financial accounts suggests that the pandemic and other global disruptions may have reset the higher education power balance even more in larger institutions’ favor.
Canberra may have chosen the right time to revisit university funding, as institutional accounts suggest a widening divide between the haves and have-nots
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