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Only 1.5% of students swapped fields due to the ‘Job-ready Graduates’ fee changes

Only 1.5% of students swapped fields due to the ‘Job-ready Graduates’ fee changes

In January 2021, the Morrison government changed the way university fees are set with the Job-ready Graduates scheme. The idea was to steer students into courses that would lead to “the jobs of the future”. So the scheme made some fields (such as history and journalism) more expensive and some (such as nursing, teaching, computer programming and engineering) […]…