Only 1.5% of students swapped fields due to the 'Job-ready Graduates' fee changes
- Written by: Jan Kabatek, Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
Jeswin Thomas/ Pexels, CC BY-SAIn January 2021, the Morrison government changed the way university fees are set with the Job-ready Graduates scheme.
The idea was to steer students into courses that would lead to “the jobs of the future”. So the scheme made some fields (such as history and journalism) more expensive and some (such as...
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