If you want to study arts and humanities, you will simply have to pay for it yourself.
Key points:
- Education Minister Dan Tehan says the Government want to steer people away from humanities into “job-ready” STEM fields
- For someone studying humanities, the cost of their contribution to the degree is now almost exactly equal to the cost of teaching the degree
- Experts says the system should not penalise students who wish to study arts and leave them with a disproportionate debt level
Experts say this is essentially the effect of the Federal Government’s proposed overhaul of tertiary education.
The plan more than doubles the cost of studying most humanities subjects at university, but slashes the cost to students of what the Government deems to be “job-relevant” courses.
It means someone studying humanities or communications will be in the same fee bracket as law students.
An arts student’s contribution to the cost of their degree is now higher than someone doing medicine.
For someone doing humanities, the cost of their contribution to their degree is now almost exactly equal to the cost of teaching the degree.