{"id":5990,"date":"2020-04-13T00:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T00:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2020-04-13T00:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T00:47:48","slug":"higher-education-package-fails-universities-staff-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/higher-education-package-fails-universities-staff-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Education Package Fails Universities, Staff and Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Education spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government\u2019s Higher Education Relief Package fails universities, staff and students in a time of crisis. She also has said that the government\u2019s messaging is unnecessarily parochial and alienating for hundreds of thousands of students.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cGuaranteeing the funding already budgeted for 2020 does not provide stability. Universities and TAFEs are absolutely central to the research, reskilling, education and training we need to survive this crisis and build a just economy and society afterwards. We need more than just life support for higher education.<br \/>\n\u201cUniversity funding has been falling for many years. Now is the time to introduce free university and TAFE for all, with a big funding boost to secure jobs and ensure the long term success of higher education in Australia.<br \/>\n\u201cThe terrible decision by the government to abandon university staff means they will continue to face uncertainty and instability. Higher education providers should be eligible for JobKeeper payments and all staff, including all casuals, should be supported through this very difficult time.<br \/>\n\u201cStop-gaps like regulatory fee relief and online short courses aren\u2019t enough, nor can they justify the government passing the buck on student welfare. Universities have been forced to become food banks by a government that refuses to give desperate international students any form of income support.<br \/>\n\u201cThe whole higher education sector needs support right now, and TAFE should not be neglected or forgotten about.<br \/>\n\u201cThe parochial flavour to the government\u2019s \u2018domestic students first\u2019 messaging, while leaving international students destitute, is outrageous. A failure to support our international students also alienates and marginalises hundreds of thousands of students we welcomed here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Education spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government\u2019s Higher Education Relief Package fails universities, staff and students in a time of crisis. She also has said that the government\u2019s messaging is unnecessarily parochial and alienating for hundreds of thousands of students. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cGuaranteeing the funding &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/higher-education-package-fails-universities-staff-and-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Higher Education Package Fails Universities, Staff and Students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}