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PA Submission (2004)</a><br> <a href = "profoftheyear.html">Announcement of 2004 Professional of the Year</a><br> <a href = "membercodes.html">Examples of Member Codes</a><br> <a href = "codeprinciples.html">Code Principles</a><br> <br><P><I>Professions </I><I>Australia</I><I> Alert No. 141: PA higher education submission gets media coverage</I></P> <P>(Professions Australia is a national organisation of professional associations)</P> <P></P> <P>Today’s <I>Australian</I> has a detailed article (text below) on PA’s submission to the current higher education inquiry, highlighting in particular our proposal that funding be tied to the effectiveness with which universities consult the communities they serve.</P> <P></P> <P>You can access the full submission through our webpage <A href="http://www.professions.com.au/">http://www.professions.com.au</A> look under What’s New.</P> <P></P> <P>PA is appearing before the Senate Committee on Friday this week.</P> <P>The Australian, 8 October 2003, page 23 (Higher Education supplement) </P> <P></P> <P>Review skews jobs supply<BR>By Dorothy Illing <BR>October 08, 2003 </P> <P>THE peak body for the professions has warned that university fee deregulation could skew the supply of professionals in key areas of community need.<BR><BR>Professions Australia says the equitable supply of professionals is already under threat in some areas, particularly in low-enrolment subjects. </P> <P>The federal Government's higher education package could exacerbate it. </P> <P>It says any fee increase will necessarily affect students' choices when choosing a professional stream. </P> <P>"PA also fears that HECS deregulation may lead to competition between universities on the basis of brand imaging, predatory pricing to drive smaller universities out of some professional streams, and course mixes that do not reflect community needs," its submission to the higher education Senate inquiry says. </P> <P>It says it is understandable that universities want to use the new funding flexibility to make up for years of underfunding by governments. </P> <P>But the new HECS opportunities could make them "go for the money" in all fields rather than tailor HECS premiums to help produce student mixes that meet community needs for graduates. </P> <P>"There is a real risk that greed will push aside need.</P> <P>"If, on the other hand, the main reason behind the University of Sydney decision [to raise HECS by up to 30 per cent across all courses] was to maintain brand image, the implications are even more disturbing for the university-community link." </P> <P>Students could end up choosing universities for social rather than vocational reasons, it says. "The 'brand image' approach risks producing an oversupply of, say, prestige-chasing Sydney University-trained lawyers when what the community needs more of may be University of Western Sydney-trained teachers." </P> <P>Professions Australia represents more than 200,000 professionals in 11 member organisations, including engineers, accountants, veterinarians, architects and dentists. </P> <P>It believes the Government's higher education review has focused too much on what universities want and not what the community needs. And it has focused too much on inputs, rather than the expected impact of policy changes. </P> <P>PA proposes the establishment of a system of national and institutional university-community consultative councils. </P> <P>These would channel the views of professional bodies, community groups, state and local governments and others into decisions about the mix of courses and university funding. </P> <P>They would also inhibit brand imaging and counterbalance predatory pricing. </P> <P>It wants consultation requirements written into the corporate governance principles for universities. </P> <P>A third measure would be to link funding through the new Commonwealth Grants Scheme to community consultation. </P> </body>