Review of Australian Higher Education The Bradley Review

Summary of recommendations
Lift quantity constraints on student numbers, and allow the seven-year learning entitlement to be used
from diploma to postgraduate coursework level.
Use compacts to sustain rural campuses and low-demand disciplines.
Make student co-investment flexible to improve institutional diversity, quality and student choice.
Set, by an independent regulator, a base cost amount by field of study, on which the maximum student
co-investment can be calculated.
Revise government tuition subsidy levels in light of new empirical evidence.
Replace all HELP schemes with a single Tertiary Education Loans Scheme, with consistent rules
and charges.
Apply student debt maximums at any one time, not a lifetime.
Continue student debtors repayment while working overseas.
Establish a further specialist review to devise a new income support scheme.
Simplify the income support scheme for students to understand, give highest priority to those in most
financial need, and allow students to reach at least poverty line incomes through reasonable work
and benefits.
Engage an independent expert body to determine a mechanism for the calculating the full economic cost
of research in Australia.
Progressively enhance direct project funding, RIBG and IGS until the full economic cost of research
is reached.
Increase competitive grant success rate to fund research potential and maintain the academic workforce.
Locate research higher degree students in high-performance research locations.
Increase scholarship levels for research higher degree students.
Devise a funding scheme for knowledge transfer, separate from teaching and research funding streams.
Create an independent and national regulator responsible for accreditation, quality assurance and access
to funding system.
Improve data collection and analysis for the benefit of students, the sector, and government.
University of Melbourne Bradley Review Submission 27