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Higher Education Support Act 2003

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28: 434:. The amendment changed the rates of private and public funding for different disciplines, while adding new Commonwealth Supported Places. The reforms were intended to drive greater enrolment growth in sectors where the Government anticipated greater jobs growth and opportunities, allow greater enrolment growth in regional areas, and add capacity in the system to account for population growth. 399:
Providers approved by the Minister. These can be a university, an institution established with the powers to approve its own courses, or a provider whose courses have been accredited by the relevant State or Territory authority. They can be allocated national priority student places in fields such as
441:, Andrew Norton highlighted three key flaws in the legislation; changes to student contributions won’t change student preferences, the new overall funding rates weaken university incentives, and the new Commonwealth contribution rates actually limit enrolment growth in the priority courses. 373:
Self accrediting bodies, not eligible for general Commonwealth funded places. They are eligible for Commonwealth research funding and can be allocated national priority student places in fields such as nursing and education.
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Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Act 2020
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An Act relating to the funding of higher education, and for other purposes
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In late 2020, the Morrison Government passed an amendment to the Act; the
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Self accrediting bodies, eligible for all funding under the Act:
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy at
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Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
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Parliament of Australia
Long title
No. 149 of 2003
No. 149, 2003 as amended
States and territories of Australia
Royal assent
Act
Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
universities
Australia
universities
National Competitive Grants Program
Central Queensland University
Charles Darwin University
Charles Sturt University
Curtin University of Technology
Deakin University
Edith Cowan University
Griffith University
James Cook University
La Trobe University
Macquarie University
Monash University
Murdoch University
Queensland University of Technology
RMIT University
Southern Cross University
Swinburne University of Technology
The Australian National University

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