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Amanda wise

9 Jul, 11 tweets, 6 min read

1/8 And where it all starts..... the decline of Commonwealth education funding going to higher education from 41% in 1996 down to record low of 23.5%. #SaveAustralianUniversities

2/8 BACK IN 1996
41.4% of total Commonwealth Govt education spending went to higher education.
Non-government schools received 16.5%
Public schools 10.9%
17.9% of the education budget went directly to students to support the less well off through their education.

3/8 BY 2020-21
Funding for higher education will be at a record low of 23.5 %
Public schools – 24%
Private schools meanwhile will be at an all-time high of 35.7% of the education budget.

4/8 So how did we make up the shortfall?
Aus Universities were forced to keep increasing international student numbers. Back in the year 2000 Australia had 233,000 international students. By 2018 that number was 440,6678.

5/8 Pollies saying universities 'addicted' to international student income - like it was a choice.
Academics have been saying for years that the reliance is too high. Reduction could have been done slowly over a careful recalibration back to a publicly funded higher ed system.

6/8 Instead we have the current calamaty with thousands of jobs lost - many forced redundancies.

7/8 And just to top it all off - a little bit of truth twisting with a sprinkle of good old fashioned jingoism:

8/8 We need to rescue the sector now. So many accomplished, talented & globally recognised scholars lost their jobs this year. Many admired & loved lecturers who put their heart and soul into teaching. Students are devastated. Their learning is diminished. And so is Australia.

@NTEUNational

#SaveAustralianUniversities #SaveAustralianHigherEd #FundUniversitiesProperly
@NTEUNational @NTEUNSW #auspol @SenKimCarr @tanya_plibersek

Sources:
smh.com.au/national/hard-…
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
aph.gov.au/About_Parliame…
internationaleducation.gov.au/research/inter…

@GMegalogenis

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Thank you @GMegalogenis for some of the numbers and graph.

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aph.gov.au/About_Parliame…

archive.budget.gov.au

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