The rising cost of tuition fees is one of the primary causes of the soaring education inflation rate, two former vice-chancellors argue.
The comments come after the latest consumer price index from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveals education is the largest single contributor to inflationary growth in the March quarter of 2022, with a 4.5 percent change in the average of eight capital cities.
The figures also show that Darwin has the highest inflation rate in the education sector with a 6.6 percent change, followed by Canberra (5.5 percent change) and Melbourne (5.4 percent change).
Emeritus Professor Steven Schwartz, who is a former Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney and Murdoch University in Perth, told The Epoch Times one of the main factors behind the rising education inflation rate is that “popular university courses” such as commerce, law and the arts have received large fee increases.
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