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Australian Universities are once again pushing the "get more students into University" barrow.

From Evil Murdoch Press

Perhaps the universities need to have a look at their humanities department and do a bit of spot checking on Logic.

If we accept the premise that

One can only assume that the Unis fully expect the scheme the Unis put up will entice students to study in areas of skill need.

The wealthy families will pay the fees regardless of the cost.

The rest will have a HECS debt, so how will lowering the costs of some courses change things seeing as they have already said the potential students do not respond in a positive way to price signals?

I would suggest that the real answer lies in  getting more students into courses that cost the Uni's the least.

STEM degrees tend to require larger infrastructure in Labs, testing equipment, expensive consumables and computers.

Running a Law, business or humanities class sometimes means the students don't even have to attend, so much can be done online.

let the overseas students pay for the expensive STEM courses, leave the cheap but useless degrees for OZ students and the coffers of the Unis.

Mick