LNP on wrong track with course funding changes

By Zoë Wundenberg
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:32am, first published June 22 2020 - 7:00pm
"We are not a race of robots. We cannot subsist on a diet of technology and maths equations." Photo: Shutterstock
"We are not a race of robots. We cannot subsist on a diet of technology and maths equations." Photo: Shutterstock

A focus on "job-ready" graduates is not new in the LNP's education policy, but Dan Tehan's announcement last week to hike the price of humanities courses demonstrates that the government has misjudged the labour market. The effects of this new policy will be widely felt by the very engineers and IT professionals they are supposedly seeking to bolster.

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