budget 2012
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Budget fine for universities but TAFEs worry
Higher education emerged unscathed from Tuesday’s federal budget but it wasn’t so reassuring for vocational education and training. The budget…
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Unis pleased with Canberra commitment
Australia’s university bodies have broadly expressed support for the federal budget, saying they believe it supports plans to improve access…
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Asia focus welcomed by services sector
The federal budget has done well to gear Australia’s services sector towards Asia, the industry body says. Australian Services Roundtable…
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Mixed ‘give and take’ budget
Key initiatives • Rise in indexation rate for government grants to universities to 3.8 per cent. The rate for VET…
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Higher ed underfunded, says opposition
Both the federal Coalition and the Australian Greens have expressed concerns that the higher education sector will be underfunded as…
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