The Australian government should not increase funding to the country’s 38 public universities to expand the number of courses, instead streamlining the way tertiary institutions run could be a more “cost-effective” way to increase student places, according to an academic.
Salvatore Babones, an adjunct scholar at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) and associate professor at the University of Sydney, has raised concerns about the ramifications of the government’s decision not to limit the number of undergraduate degrees a student can take with Commonwealth support.
