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Despite the massive ramp-up in domestic student university enrolments over the past decade:
Education Minister, Dan Teehan, has directed universities to grow their student numbers:
Universities have been told by federal Education Minister Dan Tehan to increase their student numbers to cope with the coming demographic bulge in school-leavers and says he will push his cabinet colleagues to come up with the extra funding needed.
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.