As the Turnbull government readies for a Senate battle over university funding reforms, Education Minister Simon Birmingham claimed changes to HELP student loans contained in the package will effectively save over $2 billion, above and beyond the savings already accounted for in the federal budget.
Legislation for the higher education funding changes, which will improve the budget by a stated $2.8 billion over the next four years, is expected to go to the Senate later this week, but the government faces an uphill struggle to win enough cross bench Senate support to pass the bill.
The $2.8 billion, four-year, budget improvement will come partly from cutting subsidies for university courses by $1.2 billion, but it also raises tui…
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