Go8 Backgrounder 27 - University Funding 1996-2010
This paper examines Commonwealth funding for universities over the period 1996-2010. Governments have boosted and cut university funding in different ways over time. Governments of both parties have taken measures to improve funding, but increases in recurrent funding tend not to be sustained in real terms as the sector expands. The data point to the fiscal limits to any Government’s capacity to fund a mass (and post-mass) higher education system under the current funding framework.
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