Students are fleeing Australia for free and low-fee universities around the world as the cost of living crisis and HECS pushes higher education further out of reach. Countries attracting the most Aussie ex-pats – ranked from least expensive living costs ...

In January 2021, the Morrison government changed the way university fees are set with the Job-ready Graduates scheme. The idea was to steer students into courses that would lead to “the jobs of the future” by making some fields (such ...

Millions of university students may see their debt increase by thousands of dollars after a bill to pause HECS-HELP indexation was rejected by the Senate. Last year, Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi introduced new legislation to freeze student debt in a ...

A huge deadline is looming for almost three million university students saddled with student debt, who have just six days before they are hit with a big payment increase. From June 1, the indexation rate applied to HECS–HELP loans will ...

New research has concluded that university-educated females in Australia have accrued a bigger HECS-HELP debt and also earn less than their male counterparts. The findings appear in Futurity Investment Group’s Impact of University Debt Report, which surveyed more than 1000 ...

Prospective university students might be turned off a career in nursing under changes to university loan repayment thresholds, the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has warned. The college said the move might exacerbate anticipated workforce shortages – a dearth of ...

Parliamentary debate over the Coalition’s proposed higher education reforms is set to begin in earnest today after the government’s long-awaited legislation was introduced to the House of Representatives late last week. The legislation, which would cut government subsidies for university degrees by ...

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has left the door open for alternatives to the government’s plan to charge students a higher interest rate on HECS-HELP repayments. In an address to the National Press Club yesterday in which he spruiked the virtues ...