Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia’s budget submission calls for a “genuinely student centric approach”

ITECA’s bid includes,

* “a coherent approach to tertiary education” with “regulatory convergence of higher ed and VET regulators

* ending the fee charged on top of loans to students at private providers, “one of the greatest travesties of Australia’s highest education system”

* a whole of government approach to microcredentials, “students and employers view the utility of microcredential offerings through the prism of the knowledge they deliver and the skills they offer, not by the provider that offers them”

* student choice of provider built into new National Skills Agreements

There is much more, but the intent is summed up in the aspiration;

“government investment in tertiary education, and in higher education specifically, be reconfigured and directed towards a genuinely student centric approach that adopts a focus on student choice in learning regardless of course type, location or provider type”

“The 2023 Budget offers a milestone opportunity to deliver long-term reform for the tertiary sector in a fiscally responsible manner,” ITECA argues.