Media and Citations

Media

Media features:

• The Jobready Graduates Package explained in ABC News, 14th May 2024

• My daughter’s planning an arts degree. I’m proud (and quietly terrified) in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 1st of December 2023 (PDF) 

• ‘I try not to think about it’: The soaring cost of humanities courses at uni in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 22nd of November 2023 (PDF) [front page]

• ‘A big black shadow’: Allegra’s $50,000 HECS debt for one straightforward degree in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 22nd of November 2023 (PDF) 

• Research: Morrison Government’s Job-Ready Graduate Scheme had minimal impact on student enrolments in Melbourne University Faculty of Business and Economics Newsroom, 8th November 2023 (PDF)*

• ‘Massive’ fees shake-up fails to reshape student course choices in Times Higher Education, 29th of September 2023 (PDF)*

• HELP hike for HASS students: it hasn’t hit yet in Future Campus, 27th of September 2023 (PDF)

• How should Australia address students’ cost-of-living crisis? in Times Higher Education, 16th of February 2023 (PDF)*

• Students off unfair hook for fee stuff-up in Campus Morning Mail, 11th of November 2022 (PDF)*

• Australian tuition fee review ‘must go back to first principles in Times Higher Education, 3rd of November 2022 (PDF)*

• Universities decline to cash in on Australian fee hikes in Times Higher Education, 26th of October 2022 (PDF)*

• Labor’s next steps in higher education must include fee reform  in The Australian, 25th of October 2022 (PDF)*

• Coalition’s course fee shake-up fails to change students’ choice in The Australian, 25th of October 2022 (PDF)*

• Thousands of extra university places created to help plug skills gaps in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 23rd of October 2022 (PDF)

• Students ignore costs in choosing university study: analysis in The Australian Financial Review, 23rd of October 2022 (PDF)*

• Job Ready Graduates does not work, at any price in Campus Morning Mail, 20th of October 2022 (PDF)*

*With comment

Media citations:

• If we want more young people to go to uni, stop screwing them over in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 26th of February 2024

• Universities Accord final report: what is it, and what does it recommend? in The Conversation, 25th of February 2024

• Australia’s Universities Accord – a model for British Labour? in Higher Education Policy Institute, 13th of December 2023

• Job-ready Graduates fails to shape student preferences in DASHH, 18th of October 2023

• Why are university degrees in Australia getting more expensive, and how much will they cost? in The Guardian, 2nd of October 2023 (PDF)

• Arts, business, law students hit hardest as uni fees rise in The Australian Financial Review, 24th of September 2023 (PDF)

• How to lift education levels in rural towns cheaply and easily in The Australian Financial Review, 3rd of July 2023 

• A stunning achievement: WSU’s global No. 1 sustainability ranking in The Australian Financial Review, 4th of June 2023 

Articles

• Changing the cost of some uni degrees didn’t change students’ minds in Pursuit (Melbourne University), 6th of December 2023 (PDF) [co-authored with Mick Coelli and Jan Kabatek]

• Only 1.5% of students swapped fields due to the ‘Job-ready Graduates’ fee changes in The Conversation, 8th of November 2023 (PDF) [co-authored with Jan Kabatek and Mick Coelli; uncredited co-author due to Conversation publication guidelines requiring a PhD to get recognition as an author]

Opinion Pieces

• Uni debt relief won’t fix cost-of-living pressures in The Australian, 13th of May 2024 (PDF)

• How high schools can best prepare students for the real world in The James Martin Policymaker, 29th of April 2024 (PDF)

• Getting the tertiary transition right: six things high schools can do to set students up for success at university in The James Martin Policymaker, 20th of March 2024 (PDF)

• Accord will make Australia the world leader in student loans in Times Higher Education, 4th of March 2024 (PDF)

• University Accord gets many things right, but will it be actioned? in The Australian, 27th of February 2024 (PDF)

• University review must consider fairness and quality education in The Australian Financial Review, 21st of November 2022 (PDF)

• Why the uni fee hike makes no sense in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 19th of July 2020 (PDF)

• There's nothing unfair about IB in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 16th of June 2019 (PDF)