House debates Bills
Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014; Second Reading
Sharon Bird Cunningham, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Vocational Education
7:06 pm
Well, let me take the member through that. Let us talk first of all about the fact that current undergraduate degrees have had a funding cut of, on average, 20 per cent. At the moment, what the Commonwealth funds towards the cost of running a course has been cut, on average, by 20 per cent. The figures produced by University Australia indicates that some of those will be up to 67 per cent.
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