OZschwitz chancellor slams govt controled uni fee system as 'communist'

AUSTRALIA'S higher education system is akin to communism, one of the country's leading academics said yesterday.

Monash University chancellor Alan Finkel told the National Press Club the ''centralised'' system, in which the federal government sets course fees, was hampering Australia's research and innovation promise.

''What's happened in the last few years is they've freed up student demand so we've gone from a controlled sector … [that sets student numbers] but they've maintained central control, what I like to think of as a communist system in terms of how the universities are controlled from the federal government, which means we can't set fees,'' Dr Finkel said.
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''And if you can't set fees you can't increase the fees in order to have more money to invest in higher quality.

''So we need to allow diversification across the sector in terms of quality of research, quality of education.''

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OZschwitz chancellor slams govt controled uni fee system as 'communist'

OZschwitz chancellor slams govt controled uni fee system as 'communist'

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