Commonwealth Media | 12 November 2013 The minister for education, Christopher Pyne, has announced the scope of his foreshadowed review of the demand driven funding system for higher education. He has appointed former education minister David Kemp and director of higher education at the Grattan Institute (and and a senior adviser to then minister Kemp) Andrew Norton to undertake the review and report to the government in mid-February 2014. As education minister, Kemp proposed deregulation of fees, following the West review of higher education (Learning for Life), but it was torpedoed by John Howard after the proposal leaked, which never made it to cabinet. Norton (self … [Read more...]
