Yesterday’s  budget is heavy on health with between nothing and not much for universities

Small specifics include:

* $1.5m to “explore” co-locating CSIRO agrifood  research and development to La Trobe U

* $10m for “new skills partnerships” to address skills shortages through collaboration between industry, government, TAFE and dual-sector universities

* $23m for building Victoria U Secondary College in St Albans

And that’s about it. Perhaps it is unsurprising, what with big-spends in the last two budgets, for the $50 million International Education Resilience Fund and  the $350 million Higher Education State Investment Fund. The latter, as this year’s budget papers point out was “a time limited initiative to support Victorian universities during economic recovery.”