Tehan’s overhaul of university system and fees will ‘encourage greater uptake by regional students’
Federal education minister Dan Tehan’s controversial tertiary education reforms have been welcomed by regional universities as a major step toward improving equal access to higher education opportunities for rural and Indigenous students.
Universities Australia, the group that represents vice-chancellors, has also praised the package for its plans to fund an additional 39,000 university places over the next two years.