Underfunding is the core problem in our research and education sector
Too little funding for too long is at the heart of the tertiary education system meltdown.
From the article:
No doubt, indifferent management and unwise capital expenditures have contributed to the financial problems, but the fundamental cause of the current sector-wide crisis is the tertiary education funding framework.
For several decades the framework’s deficiencies were partially masked by growing enrolments of domestic and international students. But this long period of expansion ended several years ago. With the passing of the ‘golden weather’, the framework’s imperfections have been vividly exposed.
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Good article and illustrates an important point, ie, that the funding shortfall is longstanding and structural in origin. As a structural problem it can't be solved by shunting the problem to individuals to solve, eg by asking academics to somehow be internationally excellent while the University raids our already skeletal budgets.
