Big uni targets eroded as students vote with their feet
Education Minister Jason Clare’s ambition to double the number of university students by 2055 could be undermined by further falls in applications for study next year in most states, continuing a six-year trend.
Mr Clare has said he wants 55 per cent of young people to hold a university degree in the next 25 years, which will require an additional 900,000 people enrolled at university. That would be an extra 33,000 students each year between now and then.
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