THE: Marginal incentive: coalition ‘blinks first in game of chicken’
Published on May 3, 2012
The government has made changes to the number of ‘core-and-margin’ places that will be open to bids in 2013. Commenting on the changes, Libby Hackett, director of the University Alliance, said that 60 to 70 per cent of students at University Alliance institutions were on professionally accredited courses, for which demand would be “relatively stable”. Such programmes could even be expanded in the wake of the policy revision, she suggested.
University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson has responded to the government’s latest budget measures impacting skills and higher education: “Today, the government announced a budget to secure the economy: with public services and investment at its heart.”…
University Alliance has joined forces with other organisations responsible for educating doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to urge the government to include education, training, and research at the centre…