‘Morphine drip’: Shorten warns of international student addiction, calls for new tax to fund unis

Should businesses pay for university educations?: new proposal

University of Canberra's Bill Shorten unveiled a Sovereign Wealth Education Fund at the Aitkin Lecture to help the future of education.

‘Morphine drip’: Shorten warns of international student addiction, calls for new tax to fund unis

In a major intervention on the future of tertiary education, Bill Shorten says the broken higher education system forces universities to act as migration levers rather than centres of research.

Shorten proposes 1pc levy of corporate profits to cut HECS bills

University of Canberra vice chancellor Bill Shorten says the almost four-decades-old HECS system is faltering and urges the corporate sector to fund national skills