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Highest university executive pay packets revealed as crackdown looms
Institutions are spending more on top management staff and almost 200 people are taking home salaries of $500,000 or more a year.
- by Daniella White
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Fears for schools, daycares: The 500 sites yet to be tested for forever chemicals
It could take 50 years to investigate all the potentially contaminated sites across Sydney and the rest of NSW, an inquiry has heard.
- by Carrie Fellner
Students were unfazed at a $40,000 HECS debt. Years on, reality has sunk in
Students flocked to arts degrees during the pandemic. But almost four years on, alarm bells are ringing.
- by Daniella White
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University
Uni boss’ bold plan to slash university fees and end $50,000 arts degrees
The plan would cost the government $1.7 billion a year and result in the cost of an arts degree falling from $50,000 to $28,000.
- by Daniella White
Opinion
HECS
Albanese’s HECS relief won’t fix the core problem – the fees system is broken
Student debt has reached about $81 billion. The government receives far more in student repayments than it does from the gas industry through the petroleum resource rent tax.
- by George Williams
What Australia’s first census reveals about the country today
The handwritten account of the people – and sheep – living around Sydney in 1800 is a fascinating snapshot of early colonial history.
- by Julie Power
‘It was a shock’: The limit on foreign students for every university revealed
Vice chancellors say they were blindsided by limits that kneecap institutions that achieved strong growth this year.
- by Daniella White
Top Sydney unis are the biggest targets of the student cap. It will cost the state billions
UNSW and Sydney University will be forced to slash their international enrolments by more than 40 per cent. This is how we got here and what it means.
- by Daniella White and Matt Wade
Most uni bosses make more than $1 million. When this one got the job, he asked for a pay cut
Most Australian vice chancellors are paid more than $1 million. This university boss thinks that’s too high.
- by Daniella White
Degrees that lead graduates to the biggest pay packets revealed
Students have been urged to consider potential earnings compared with the cost of their university degrees and long-term HECS debt.
- by Daniella White
Opinion
Universities in crisis
Students are starving. One man could fix it with a keystroke
If you have any influence on the next generations, tell them not to do an arts degree – at least until the federal government fixes its fee problem.
- by Jenna Price
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