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Universities face further cuts in the Federal Budget, but vocational training providers say investment in skills training is well overdue Bianca Healey credit: Getty The Federal Budget revealed investment unevenly distributed across the country’s higher education and vocational training sectors, with the latter winning out. The JobTrainer program has gained additional funding, with the government’s apprenticeship program winning an additional $1.2 billion. Peak university bodies argue they’ve missed out, while vocational organisations say the allocation of funds is the best way to get Australians into jobs. Popular Searches Peak bodies have reacted accordingly, with those in the university sector speaking out about what it considers another gut punch following the loss of more than 17,000 jobs since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 not to mention the financial impact of plummeting international student numbers. ....
Share For more than a decade, higher education was the spoilt, rich, mollycoddled cousin of the down-at-heel, wrong-side-of-the-tracks vocational education and training sector. Billions of dollars flowed into university coffers as domestic student numbers swelled under the demand-driven system and international students arrived in their hundreds of thousands. The tables have turned as the training sector finds favour over universities. But university vice-chancellors and lobbyists kept complaining. Enough was never enough. On the other side of town, the vocational skills sector was plagued by a stream of poorly designed policies and declining per-student funding. Apprenticeship numbers spiralled ever downwards as students made the rational decision to go to university. After all, why pay fees to go to TAFE when you could get an income-contingent loan to attend university. ....
Share There is no budget relief for a university sector ravaged by steep declines in international students and saddled with a new funding regime that will see domestic student revenues decline over the forward estimates. Last year’s $1 billion boost for research to compensate for lost international student revenue has not been repeated, which will have dire consequences for the research sector and the ranking of Australian universities on global league tables. Universities have been shunned in the budget. Craig Hartley/Bloomberg There are only a small number of bright lights in the budget including an incentive program designed to increase the number of industry-engaged PhD students, more money to promote women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through a $42.4 million university scholarship program and funding to boost the research capacity of regional universities. ....
Advertisement Australiaâs university sector is in an unprecedented crisis as it faces a series of immediate and longer-term challenges brought sharply into focus by the pandemic. The most urgent concern is the continuing absence from local campuses of hundreds of thousands of international students who pay course fees at higher rates than domestic students. Australiaâs international border closure, in place now for more than a year, has locked out these students and severely interrupted their education plans. Some 17,300 jobs in higher education have been lost in the past year. Credit:Wayne Taylor While many universities invested heavily in online systems last year to cater for remote learning by foreign-based and domestic students alike, universitiesâ revenues were hit hard as international student enrolment numbers plummeted. ....
Governments, universities must work together to resolve current crisis We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Australia’s university sector is in an unprecedented crisis as it faces a series of immediate and longer-term challenges brought sharply into focus by the pandemic. The most urgent concern is the continuing absence from local campuses of hundreds of thousands of international students who pay course fees at higher rates than domestic students. Australia’s international border closure, in place now for more than a year, has locked out these students and severely interrupted their education plans. ....