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How the uni cuts will hurt almost every discipline: a plot.
Data credit: @dangolding and @garethjbryant.
Data credit: @dangolding and @garethjbryant.
Most coverage has focused on the massive fee increases for humanities. Student fee increases are the top half of the plot. But CSG (government support) cuts mean that almost all disciplines lose income (left half), even when student contribution increases.
Bruce Chapman has argued under HELP fee changes don't affect demand much. But huge fee increases must have some impact, and the top-left quadrant shows disciplines double-hit by big fee increases AND even bigger cuts, so that despite students paying much more, unis get less...
Even maths and agriculture, headlined as benefiting from the largest fee reductions of $5998, still lose out because while fed support increases, it does not cover the reduction. Unis will be $3513 (maths) and $3444 (ag) worse off per student. And more students, pace Chapman.
Science and Engineering are, from a funding perspective, just as badly off as Communications, losing $4758 per student. Rather than making up any shortfall due to lower fees, the fed govt rips out another $2760.
It's almost all bad, but look at Environmental Studies. Same fee cut as Science & Engineering, but then a whopping $7946 cut in fed funding, for a total cut of $9944, or 29%.
