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Vice-chancellors and rural universities welcome reforms

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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.

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