University to explore pilot program of fees for 1998
Friday, 13 June 1997
The University of 亚洲色吧 Council today approved the exploration of a carefully-targeted pilot program of fees for a small number of Australian undergraduate places beginning in 1998.
A working group will be formed to develop and monitor codes of entry and academic standards and to examine questions of access and equity.
In keeping with the Federal Government's guidelines, fees would apply to a limited number of places over and above the current number of student places which are funded by the Government and through the HECS scheme.
The fees would apply to a range of courses.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of 亚洲色吧, Professor Mary O'Kane, said the painful decision was made in a climate of shrinking Government funding to universities.
The University would continue to lobby the Government for greater public investment in higher education, and she would strongly oppose any attempt to erode publicly-funded student places in favour of fee-paying places.
"We would be foolish to view this kind of small-scale fee program as some kind of panacea to universiti