Kate Ellis (Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Youth and Sport) Share this | Hansard source

I can report that last week, the chair of Universities Australia, Professor Richard Larkins, stated that the previous government’s legislation had:

… directly impaired our ability to deliver quality education and research …

He further stated:

We had to use money [set aside] for research and teaching and use it to support the student experience on campus.

These concerns, though, were further echoed by the University of Sydney when it said, in its submission to the Senate inquiry, that ‘the university has been forced to redirect university funds to support the student experience’. We have also heard from the Australian Technology Network of Universities that reduced services are a significant threat to the level of international enrolments. Those opposite are so engaged in the arguments of the past that just earlier today—

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