The tech ed lobby is unhappy with aspects of the bill and it’s submission is said to outright oppose the student-protections set out in Schedule Five

The Australian Technology Network is expected to warn that there is no certainty on growth funding, to “maintain student opportunity as Australia’s population grows.” It has “reservations” about charging human welfare students the maximum contribution and reducing total funding for science, engineering and clinical psychology.

But the lobby likes least the requirements imposed in Schedule Five, which it argues, imposes on HE a solution to a VET problem. It adds universities did not know the new regulatory requirements were coming and that they involve “a considerable number of additional requirements on universities, with associated costs, at a time when universities are seeking to manage the implications of a substantial amount of lost revenue associated with the decline in international students.” In particular, ATN points to government oversight of student suitability for and progress in a course.

“There should be consultation with public universities on the application of these provisions before they are legislated, and they should be subject to a regulatory impact analysis,” ATN proposes.