Information about the Inquiry
On 4 June 2009, the Senate referred the provisions of the Higher Education
Support Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Bill 2009 to the Senate Standing
Committee on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations for report by
5 August 2009.
This bill amends the Higher Education Support Act 2003 to implement the
government's reform to the higher education system as announced in the 2009–10
Budget. The bill responds to the Bradley Review of higher education, and amends
the Act to effect recommendations of the Review of the National Innovation
System and the recent House of Representatives report into research training and
workforce issues.
The bill amends the act to:
- revise the maximum funding amounts for the Commonwealth Grant Scheme, Other
Grants and Commonwealth Scholarships
- include a funding cluster for education and provide increased funding for all
clusters
- increase the maximum additional funding certain eligible higher education
providers can receive
- vary the purposes for which Other Grants may be made and eligibility for those
grants
- change maximum student contribution amounts for certain students · remove the
OS-HELP loan fee from 2010 ·
- apply new indexation arrangements to maximum student contribution amounts of
2011
Please note that the committee is
only examining the provisions of the bill set out in Schedule 1, Item 5.
Note that this bill does not deal explicitly with youth allowance
entitlements. It is expected that a bill is to be introduced in
the Spring sittings that will deal with such matters.
The bill may be accessed at: http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fbillhome%2Fr4133%22
The committee
invites written submissions which can be lodged electronically through the
submissions section on the inquiry homepage. Hard copy submissions should
be sent to:
Committee
Secretary
Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
The closing date for submissions is
Monday 29 June 2009.
The committee
requests that where possible, submissions should be provided preferably in
MS Word or RTF format documents. Notes to assist in preparing submissions
are available from the website
https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm.
Once the
committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential committee
document. Release of your submission without the committee's permission
will remove the protection of parliamentary privilege. The committee
normally makes submissions public. Please indicate if you want your
submission to be kept confidential.
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For further information, contact:
Mr John Carter
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia