The Sydney Morning Herald | Budget 2017: Universities to be hit with funding cuts, student fees to rise The Sydney Morning Herald The Turnbull government will slash university funding by hundreds of millions of dollars in the May budget while hiking student fees and requiring graduates to pay back their loans faster. The government will justify the cuts by pointing to a major new ... University funding to be slashed and student fees hiked in May budget Students failed as our bloated university sector takes care of itself Simon Birmingham to beat the budget and announce his higher education reforms early |