While DASSH welcomes the government’s willingness to negotiate on some of the proposed amendments to the Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014 put forward by members of the Senate, including the decision to retain the current the HECS-HELP repayments at the Consumer Price Index rather than the proposed 10 year bond rate, there...

The Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) represents humanities, arts and social science (HASS) disciplines across 36 Australian universities. While these universities differ in their responses to the proposed deregulation of higher education, there is agreement among DASSH members that the proposals to reduce government funding of university education and...

This review was established to address the question of whether the higher education education is structured, organised and financed to position Australia to compete effectively in the new globalised economy. Major reforms are recommended to the financing and regulatory frameworks for higher education.