The Scott Morrison policy strangling Australia’s humanities degrees

I enrolled in the arts and law undergraduate program He earned his degree in 2020 and left with nearly $40,000 in HECS debt. Students starting the same degree in 2021 and later will owe approximately $85,000. The Morrison-era Job Ready Graduates Package (JRGP) is responsible for this.

As Australia battles the COVID-19 pandemic, the Morrison government has sought to encourage students to enroll in fields of “national need” that will help “accelerate economic recovery”, more than doubling the cost of humanities degrees while slashing STEM and nursing fees; law and business became the most expensive.