A learned reader suggests the freeze on undergraduate places could be much worse for Queensland universities. If 2020 was adopted as the base year the total of commencing students would be halved. An increase in the school starting age in 2008, will mean Year 11 in 2018 has a third-less students than Year Ten and 12.
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