Votes, money may speak louder than equity for Labor

The picture could not be sharper: Vice President of the clean dressed president, consultants, industry lobbyists and Higher Education Consultancy company representatives protested not to take part in the five -star Fullerton Hotel in Martin Place, outdoors, raining, union members, academicians and students.

. AFRs Higher Education Summit Last Tuesday, the National Higher Education Association (NTEU) was presented with the global consulting company Noous. definitions In Australian education, having a “malicious registry ve and“ in the higher education sector, mostly linked to business cuts in Anu ”.

Meanwhile, NTEU welcomed the news of the NSW Parliament investigation after a petition initiated by NTEU and a petition in the NSW Parliament in the NSW Parliament in the NSW Parliament. Discusses Universities must be “accessible, inclusive and accountable ve and function for the public interest.

Interestingly, this was more or less the same as the Education Minister Jason Clare. Opening Speech At the summit. Clare told the audience that the government was about to “destroy the invisible obstacle that stops going to university”.

Iz We should help people who are not there at the moment. People from poor families. People from places I grow up. In our foreign suburbs. In regions. The agreement also finances them if a person with a disadvantaged history takes signs to make a course.

But Clare is a audience In a public interview AFR Journalist Julie Hare: “Can you accept that ready -made graduates weaken our equity goals?

Clare replied, saying he didn’t like the JRG scheme, but JRG has to be fixed because as he says, “The reform is like eating a little elephant – a bite every time.” However, the journalist pushed the hare back:

I think there was a lot of expectations when the Labor Party was first chosen about JRG, but it would be one of the first things to deal with, but the box was thrown on the road… Now we stayed in four years…

Clare reminded the audience that he reformed heCs and aid systems as the Labor Party suggested.

Assigned by the federal government Australian Universities Agreement Report It is a turning point certificate published in 2024 and providing a 10 -year plan to reshape Australia’s higher education system.

. JRG In 2021, the plan was introduced by the Morrison coalition government to determine students to enter the disciplines that could be less “ready to work”. Increased cost Less valuable coursesIt doubles wages for some degrees such as human sciences, art, trade and law.

The agreement made 47 suggestions, one of which scrapped JRG. The worker government decided not to adopt all the proposals immediately. So, what were the guiding principles in determining the priority?

This mass member’s Clare question, both GREEN and some independentAlso some of the Labor Party. Southern Australian Workers Deputy Louise Miller-Frost sees JRG believes that JRG’s reform should be a priority in the second period of Labor, as a matter of eşit inter -generation equality ve and JRG’s reform.

Some university managers reiterate this view. Western Sydney University Assistant Chancellor George Williamswho joined AFR The summit clearly said that JRG is “pricing students from the university”. Williams should know this better than anyone in the room – running a university have to have A much higher ratio of students with low socioeconomic status history than the average University of Australia.

The agreement proposed reforms to both heCs and JRG, then why were he chosen as priorities, but not JRG? There are at least two factors that can shape how the government decides which suggestions will be applied.

The first factor is money. Although there is no clear data to argue that JRG generates extra income, independent analysis He argues that the plan reduces government expenditures. For example, the evidence provided by the State Universities Australia shows that JRG results in “7% increase in total public financing per student and student debt”. In other words, despite the desire to criticize JRG when various labor figures are announced by the coalition, protecting the plan seems to be developing the Budget position of the Labor Party. Even the Clare accepted The reform will need JRG’s “important dollar connected to it ..

However, the government seems to apologize to fist rather than avoiding landing in the first place by reducing students’ hecs debts, but by scrapping JRG. JRG and Hecs seem to accept that there is a close connection between the debt. Educational specialist Andrew Norton Many young Australian argues that not to recognize the connection between course fees and future earnings capacity for graduates is upset with great debts to pay to pay.

The second factor is the vote. As a result, reducing existing HecS debts is a much more important way to earn young voters, because it benefits to all graduates from all degrees that have previously received reform debts and leads to concrete and emergency improvements in financial situations. As it is, Clare claimed that the decline of student debt costs $ 20 billion – political dividends may be important.

Labor will affect approximately 3 million Australians, a 20% decrease in hecs debt. A lot popularEspecially in the labor marginal seats. Therefore, not completely without the justification of the Labor Party’s winning landslides, Chris Kenny The Labour’s Hecs policy of Sky News called “Pure Election Bribery ..

Although the worker is reluctant to scrape JRG for budget reasons, he cannot ignore the fact that the plan of the plan will further increase inequality. Evidence He tells us that the schema could not reach the desire – there was no significant shifts from human sciences. However, this indeed has led to a significant higher hecS debts for students in these areas.

Labor Deputy Louise Miller-Frost in question Based on the interviews with the founders, the JRG ğı angered voters ”and called on the government to move earlier, not later. If the labor force can become a choice problem, maybe they will decide to plan the plan just before the next election?

Considering that the Labor Party still wants to see as a progressive party, it may be a cynical line of thought. However, it is a sad situation if the party is large in the discourse of equality, but is still ready to pric a university education of many local students from low socioeconomic pasts. And these are the Labor Party, which is ready to present higher education forty years ago.