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Teachers as health workers; a consideration of the economic impacts using unique survey data

11/10/2025

Abstract Teachers face a multiplicity task in undertaking their work. Some of these tasks are not primarily educational and may be described as health related. In the provision of these services there is a net transfer of economic benefit from the Education Sector to the Health Sector. Disentangling the net amount of this transfer is difficult and depends largely upon the substitutability between teacher-initiated health-work and “market” based health work which might reasonably be carried out by health professionals. The

Structural change in Australian Universities- Part 3 the impact of the rise in international students

16/05/2025

International students have become a major source of revenue for Australian universities but also a source of structural and ethical concern Introduction International students have been a major source of revenue for Australian universities since the 1990s, with their contributions growing significantly over time. Pre Covid in 2018-19, international education generated AUD$37.6 billion, making it Australia’s third-largest export after coal and iron ore. Successive Commonwealth Governments seized on this to reduce their funding of Australian Universities Back in 1990,

Structural Change in the higher education in Australia: Part 2 HECS and beyond

03/05/2025

The Australian Government supported tertiary enrolments in Australia with the HECS scheme in 1989. It saw no need to extend this deferred payment scheme to vocational education until 2017. By this time, and as a partial consequence, student HECS debts were becoming unsustainable, Australia faced a severe skilled labour shortage but had a surplus of lawyers and other graduates. In 1989 the Hawke /Keating Government, as a consequence of the disastrous free fee legislation of a decade earlier, were forced

Structural change in Australia higher education over the last 50 years. Part 1 the 1974 decision to abolish university fees and the coming of HECs-

22/12/2024

Part 1 the 1974 decision to abolish university fees and the coming of HECs- The Whitlam Government’s abolition of university fees in Australia in 1974 represented middle class welfare at its worst. It made university education much easier for the middle class and more difficult for students from working class backgrounds. It was one of the first examples of the embourgeoisement of the labour party which has continued at a pace ever since. Introduction Just prior to the

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Teachers as health workers; a consideration of the economic impacts using unique survey data

Structural change in Australian Universities- Part 3 the impact of the rise in international students

Structural Change in the higher education in Australia: Part 2 HECS and beyond

Structural change in Australia higher education over the last 50 years. Part 1 the 1974 decision to abolish university fees and the coming of HECs-

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Teachers as health workers; a consideration of the economic impacts using unique survey data

Structural change in Australian Universities- Part 3 the impact of the rise in international students

Structural Change in the higher education in Australia: Part 2 HECS and beyond

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