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Cost of student loans blows out; billions to go unpaid

Higher education costs, for both university and vocational training, have blown out to more than $42 billion, with a quarter of these government-funded HELP loans unlikely ever to be repaid. A 10-year projection for these loans conducted by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimates accumulated ...

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COAG-sponsored review warns against sidelining TAFE

A mid-term review of the federal government’s five-year skills plan – implemented by federal Labor in 2012 – has concluded that TAFE shouldn’t be deemed ‘just another provider’ within the VET sector. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) commissioned ACIL Allen's Review ...

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