Good piece.

Will be interesting to see how Australia, and other countries, achieve this.

If this brings about a return of common sense to Education I'll eat my hat !

"Consequently, higher education needs a renaissance. It needs to be relevant to earning incomes, affordable, without evolving into a debt trap, accessible without the need for students to be isolated on campuses, and provided to the community at a low institutional cost. It needs to go back to the grass roots, emulating what the technical and community colleges once were."

They don't just need to emulate them, they should go back to being them. Back in the fifties and sixties those of us who received diplomas were ready to work and do meaningful jobs when we finished our courses, then RMIT decided that they wanted to be uppity and become a university and the others decided to follow suit. Today's university graduates don't seem to know what they want to do and industry doesn't know what to do with them either. As well as that, there is a shortage of tradies because all the technical schools have gone because fools who followed in Whitlam's footsteps thought that everyone should have the opportunity to get a degree.

David