Australia and the UK both struggle to recoup student loan repayments from graduates who've moved abroad. Nick Hillman says we need a stricter approach
The Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) is running a year-long comparison of the Australian and English university systems. The objective is to reveal some lessons for public policy.
Given that new evidence is the bread-and-butter of academia, it's been an unexpectedly bumpy ride. When we published our initial findings, one observer claimed, "Hepi's suggestion that there are lessons to be learned from down under is particularly misguided".
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