ATEM presents a breakfast seminar on the recent Higher Education Base Funding Review (the Lomax-Smith review) which had broad terms of reference to establish enduring principles to underpin public investment in higher education. These principles were to address the appropriate balance between public and private contributions to the cost of undergraduate and postgraduate education. The Panel was also asked to identify international benchmarks and trends for coursework education and the level of base funding required for Australian universities to deliver competitively.

The review recommended an increase in the level of base funding per student, rationalisation of the relative level of student and government contributions, adjustment of the rate of funding for some disciplines and the introduction of special funding arrangements for ‘flagship’ courses.

The seminar will consider how the interplay between competing Government priorities will affect the implementation of the review’s recommendations, and the effect that will have on institutions and students. There will be ample opportunity for networking and discussion of these important changes.