Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

allowing them to compete not only domestically amongst themselves for students but also compete internationally against those universities in Asia that are ever improving the quality of their offerings. So not only are we protecting a $15-billion a year international education market but we are also giving our Australian students a great deal more opportunity to go to university. In fact, should our reforms be passed, 80,000 more young Australians will get the opportunity to get a higher education qualification by lifting the demand-driven system cap that currently exists for sub-bachelor degrees and by expanding the Commonwealth grant scheme to non-university higher education providers.

The fact that competition is good for the uni sector has been recognised by that Paul Wellings, the vice-chancellor of Wollongong University.

Mr Champion interjecting—

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