Media release   5 August 2012 The Grattan Institute's official release of Graduate Winners: Assessing the public and private benefits of higher education: Graduates do well out of higher education. They have attractive jobs, above-average pay and status. They take interesting courses and enjoy student life. Given these large benefits, and with the HELP student loan scheme in place, most subsidies are for courses that students would take anyway. Tuition subsidies therefore merely redistribute income to students and graduates, at the expense of the general public – particularly those who do not go to university. Graduate Winners proposes a new model for setting the … [Read more...]