Former education minister Dan Tehan’s attempt to discourage students studying humanities and business by hiking course costs will not have big impacts over peoples’ life-time incomes, new research co-authored by father of HECS Bruce Chapman demonstrates.

Last year Mr Tehan dropped government annual contributions per student place by a range of $1000 to $5000 but hiked student contributions from a previous range of $6000-$11000 to $14 000 (CMM June 19 2020). But it appears that arts and business students will earn more for universities, while feeling no or not much, pain over-time. (Scroll down for a report on the research).