I would have loved to have done freelance instructing like this but the option wasn't open then, to do it I had to jump through all the hoops to get my own AOC.
Aussie bob, very few elite schools get the FEE HELP funding, and most of them still seem to run into financial strife. There are still plenty of schools operating as viable small businesses, the ones that didn't adapt to being cut off at the knees by the RA lot are long gone