Originally Posted by
dr dre
Well we as a society have decided to support the cost of higher education via HECS/FEE-HELP rather than demand young people pay 6 figure costs to get their careers off to a start. As if they weren’t burdened enough with higher housing and living costs and increasingly unstable employment.
You’re free to start an extreme anarcho libertarian party and defund government support of higher education if you wish, I don’t think you’ll get many votes.
Dre, I don't think anyone is saying that. But the other courses that allow students to borrow that amount are medicine, dentistry and veterinary science. Not only do these have a high ATAR entry requirement, they also have more stable employment probability and ability to repay at the end.
I think ALL higher education funded by HELP loans should publish statistiscs that allow the taxpayer to see if they are getting value for their HELP loan dollars.