Late last year, the Turnbull Government implemented university funding reforms to make it harder for students to access the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) for courses that have poor employment prospects, thereby effectively ending the demand-driven university system established by the Gillard Labor Government.
Yesterday, Labor’s education spokesperson, Tanya Plibersek, told The AFR’s Higher Education Summit she was committed to returning to the old “uncapped” model of higher education:
