Senate debates
Monday, 24 November 2014
Questions without Notice
Higher Education
2:28 pm
Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source
with amendments. That includes TAFE Directors Australia, and COPHE and ACPET from the private sector. It includes the Regional Universities Network. It includes Innovative Research Universities, the Australian Technology Network and the Group of Eight. They know that these reforms have huge benefits for their students. What the reforms mean is that present and future generations of students will actually have access to the best higher education possible in Australia. The quality of Australian higher education, the quality of the degrees offered, depends on these reforms. As well as making possible an internationally competitive higher education that students rightly expect and making this sustainable for the long-term future, of course there will be many other benefits for students. (Time expired)
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