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One key change to universities under the Morrison government was the\u00a0Job-ready Graduates program<\/a>. Starting in 2021, this\u00a0significantly increased<\/a>\u00a0student fees for humanities degrees, slashed them for nursing and teaching, and moved many other courses up and down.<\/p>\n

University\u00a0enrolment figures<\/a>\u00a0suggest it has not achieved its goal: to steer students into certain fields of study and away from others.<\/p>\n

So, a new system of student fees is likely to be part of Labor\u2019s\u00a0promised Universities Accord<\/a>, which aims to reset the relationship between the federal government and university sector.<\/p>\n

Its terms of reference will be\u00a0announced next month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ideas about setting student fees<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Australia has had several student fee systems before. In a\u00a0new paper<\/a>, I look at the five different rationales used for setting HECS, later called student contributions, since 1989. These include: public benefits, increasing resources per student place, incentivising course choices, private benefits and course costs.<\/p>\n

In the past month, two new reports have also looked at possible student contribution systems, adding to or varying those used previously.<\/p>\n

In its October\u00a0report on improving education outcomes<\/a>, the Productivity Commission set out two main options.<\/p>\n

In the first, courses with\u00a0greater expected private financial benefits<\/a>\u00a0(or future income) would get lower public subsidies and require higher student contributions. Courses with the potential to earn low, medium and high incomes would have correspondingly low, medium and high student contributions.<\/p>\n

In a second option, government subsidies would be a flat dollar amount or percentage of course teaching costs. Either way, students in courses\u00a0with high teaching costs<\/a>\u00a0would pay the most, as student contributions make up the difference between the public subsidy and the course cost.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0new report<\/a>\u00a0from the Innovative Research Universities lobby group also suggests different options. Under one, most students would pay a flat student contribution rate, with public subsidies making up the difference between the flat rate and course costs.<\/p>\n

For a\u00a0budget-neutral<\/a>\u00a0transition from Job-ready Graduates, the flat rate would be about A$10,000 a year. The report says that this would offer \u201csimplicity and predictability\u201d.<\/p>\n

These ideas have a history<\/strong><\/h4>\n

It is important to remember these ideas have histories, with lessons today\u2019s policymakers should not forget.<\/p>\n

In 1997 the Howard government replaced the original flat HECS rate (where all students paid the same fee, regardless of their course) with three different HECS rates. Cabinet documents from the time show support for a \u201ccourse costs\u201d approach, so students in more expensive courses paid more.<\/p>\n

However, the Howard government also recognised what\u00a0my paper<\/a>\u00a0calls the \u201cnurses and lawyers problem\u201d. Nursing costs more to teach than law, so under a course costs student contribution policy, nursing students would pay more than law students. That is a hard idea to sell.<\/p>\n

Introducing a \u201cprivate benefits\u201d rationale solved this problem. On average lawyers earn more than nurses, and since 1997 law students have always paid higher student contributions than nursing students.<\/p>\n

Despite the nurses and lawyers problem, the idea that course costs could be used to set student contributions has persisted. It led to two detailed\u00a0government-commissioned reports in the 2010s<\/a>, and is being suggested again now by the Productivity Commission.<\/p>\n

Politics, income and policy<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The education ministers who received those 2010s reports – Chris Evans from Labor and Simon Birmingham from the Liberals – did not implement their cost-sharing ideas. Student contribution levels are political as well as policy decisions, which need to be explained to the parliament, voters and students.<\/p>\n

Any rigid course cost model that ignores the politics of student contributions for areas like nursing and teaching isn\u2019t politically viable. Public opinion will not support students training for these careers paying more for their education than law and business students.<\/p>\n

The private financial benefits approach fits with Australia\u2019s tax and social support system, under which we increase charges and reduce benefits with income. But we also have to be careful about just relying on potential earnings to set course fees. On average, law graduates earn a lot, but a top commercial law barrister and a legal aid lawyer have very different incomes.<\/p>\n

A flat-price student contribution would avoid some anomalies of the course cost and private benefit systems. But the transition back would be politically difficult \u2013 nursing and teaching student contributions would increase significantly unless overall public funding increased.<\/p>\n

Real-life consequences<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Although student contributions have little effect on course choices,\u00a0my paper<\/a>\u00a0argues they do have practical consequences policymakers should take into account.<\/p>\n

The doubling of humanities student contributions under the Job-ready Graduates scheme, combined with the relatively low incomes of humanities graduates, means their\u00a0HELP student loan<\/a>\u00a0repayment times will be\u00a0longer<\/a>, with an increased proportion never fully repaying their debt.<\/p>\n

While the\u00a0HELP repayment system<\/a>\u00a0lets graduates repay over decades if necessary, this is to assist people with low or irregular incomes, not to penalise people for their course choices. Under the current student contribution system, two graduates on the same income could have significantly different repayment times.<\/p>\n

Repayment delays are bad for the government too. Repaying the\u00a0$74 billion in outstanding HELP<\/a>\u00a0more quickly would reduce the\u00a0government\u2019s interest bill<\/a>\u00a0and the risk of debt never being repaid.<\/p>\n

To combat these issues, we need to consider how much graduates can potentially earn when setting university fees.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for universities?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Student contributions affect universities as well as students. As the Productivity Commission points out, universities need to pay their bills now and must pay attention to revenue per student.<\/p>\n

For universities, the key financial figure is the total funding rate. This is the public subsidy plus the student contribution. But each university has a cap on public funding. Once they reach it, additional students are funded on student contributions only.<\/p>\n

For classroom-based courses such as arts or business, adding more students to subjects already being taught usually does not cost much. A low student contribution could cover it. But for courses with clinical components such as nursing, which requires expensive equipment and close supervision, the costs of more students are higher.<\/p>\n

We know clinical training costs, combined with very low student contributions for nursing, are an obstacle to increasing enrolments despite\u00a0high demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, for universities\u2019 purposes, we cannot forget what courses actually cost to run when setting student contributions.<\/p>\n

Pragmatic student fees<\/h4>\n

Some student contribution systems, such as incentives to steer students into particular courses, should be ruled out. But when looking at university fees, the new federal government can adopt more than one rationale, pragmatically reflecting a mix of policy and political goals.<\/p>\n

An enduring student contribution system will ensure that most graduates can repay their HELP debt in a reasonable amount of time, that students in nursing and teaching courses don\u2019t pay more than other students, and that universities have the right incentives to meet student demand.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Andrew Norton is Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy at the Australian National University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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