Vic: More students pay for degrees

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2006
Vic: More students pay for degrees

MELBOURNE, April 11 AAP - More students are willing to pay full fees for their degrees,
according to a study.

A study of seven Victorian universities found an overall rise in Victorian students
willing to pay full fees for their degrees.

Full fee-paying places for domestic first-year undergraduates surged by up to 80 per
cent in the past year, a survey by The Age newspaper found.

"A study of seven universities found an overall rise in the Victorian members of the
elite Group of Eight universities, Melbourne and Monash, grew their new domestic fee-paying
places by about a quarter and a third respectively," The Age reported today.

The newspaper also said universities had warned Labor leader Kim Beazley that his pledge
to scrap full fees would cut student places and strip the sector of up to $200 million.

"I think politically the Labor party would have to make good that shortfall and they
would find that difficult to do," Monash University senior deputy vice-chancellor Stephen
Parker said.

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