“Degrees should cost students zero dollars,” Greens spokesperson for Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, said this morning in response to the “government’s pathetic uni fee hikes”.
\n\u201cArts graduate Minister Tehan’s jobs rhetoric is empty. He’s part of a Government that would rather throw a tantrum at humanities students and slam them with higher fees than do the hard work of creating jobs across the economy.
\n\u201cThe government’s juvenile Murdoch-driven loathing of students and the humanities is on clear display today. Education isn\u2019t just about getting you a job – it’s a public good and it\u2019s certainly not about punishing students who wish to study humanities and the law.
\n\u201cThis is the government recognising the abject failure of their 2018 funding freeze and crawling back with their tail between their legs and another disastrous approach to uni funding.
\n\u201cWe need free TAFE and uni for all students to meet rising demand during the recession and ensure access to education for all throughout their lives. Anything short of that won’t do.
\n\u201cOur unis are in crisis with rolling cuts to jobs and courses around the country. Without a substantial funding increase thousands more jobs will go and education quality will suffer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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