University of Canberra vice-chancellor Bill Shorten has proposed a new income strategy for universities through a one per cent levy on big business profit. The levy on businesses and corporations – which benefit from a highly skilled well-educated workforce, Mr Shorten said, could raise $5.2bn a year to pay for the future of the higher education sector. Unlike the one proposed in the Universities Accord, the fund would not contribute to national…
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