HECS and HECS-HELP: equity Issues
There have been many changes to the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) since itsintroduction in 1989. The most significant of these is possibly the reforms announced in the 2003Federal Budget, which allow universities to increase the contributions required of students by up to25%. This pape...
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| description | There have been many changes to the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) since itsintroduction in 1989. The most significant of these is possibly the reforms announced in the 2003Federal Budget, which allow universities to increase the contributions required of students by up to25%. This paper considers the distribution of deferred HECS liabilities according to thesocioeconomic status of students. An algorithm is presented for converting area-level data to itsindividual-level equivalent. It is found that students of lower socioeconomic status defer a muchlarger proportion of their HECS than students of higher socioeconomic status. The adverse sideeffects of HECS identified in the literature will therefore be more acute for low socioeconomicstatus background students than for their wealthier counterparts. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-417662017-09-13T15:59:12Z HECS and HECS-HELP: equity Issues Birch, E. Miller, Paul There have been many changes to the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) since itsintroduction in 1989. The most significant of these is possibly the reforms announced in the 2003Federal Budget, which allow universities to increase the contributions required of students by up to25%. This paper considers the distribution of deferred HECS liabilities according to thesocioeconomic status of students. An algorithm is presented for converting area-level data to itsindividual-level equivalent. It is found that students of lower socioeconomic status defer a muchlarger proportion of their HECS than students of higher socioeconomic status. The adverse sideeffects of HECS identified in the literature will therefore be more acute for low socioeconomicstatus background students than for their wealthier counterparts. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41766 10.1080/13600800600750921 Routledge fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Birch, E. Miller, Paul HECS and HECS-HELP: equity Issues |
| title | HECS and HECS-HELP: equity Issues |
| title_full | HECS and HECS-HELP: equity Issues |
| title_fullStr | HECS and HECS-HELP: equity Issues |
| title_full_unstemmed | HECS and HECS-HELP: equity Issues |
| title_short | HECS and HECS-HELP: equity Issues |
| title_sort | hecs and hecs-help: equity issues |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41766 |