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Ballarat

Hello All,

My apologies for not writing for a couple weeks. We had a long weekend last week and so I took the opportunity to visit Sydney during that time. I’ve been traveling to different universities here in Victoria as well thereby making it difficult to sit down and write a post. I’ve been here for four weeks and I only have four more weeks to go here before I head over to New Zealand! Time really flies. I’m not going to post much text here this time around. Instead, I’ll share a link to my flickr account where you can finally see photos of my time here thus far!

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Current Issues in Australian Higher Education

Student Protest

(Photo from ABCnews.com.au)

Quite recently (within the last few weeks), The Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, announced plans to change how higher education is funded in the country. As I had mentioned in my last post, the cost of attending any university is currently the same from one institution to another, as the current funding model caps the cost of higher education here in Australia. Members of the Australian government would like to switch higher education funding to an American-like system, where individual universities can charge whatever they need to in order to supplement the funding they receive from the government. The government has indicated that the sharp rise in the number of students who wish to attend a university has made subsidizing the cost an unsustainable burden to the Australian Government. The government believes the new funding model will make Australian higher education more sustainable into the future. Continue reading