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Students Plan Fee Protests
Central Coast Herald
Tuesday June 3, 2003
ANGRY students will protest in Coalition-held marginal seats across the country to try to derail plans to increase university fees.
A month of mass demonstrations is being planned for August as opposition mounts to the Federal Government's $1.5billion higher education reforms.
The National Union of Students said the campaign aimed to force a backdown on reforms that would allow universities to charge up to 30per cent higher fees above HECS rates.
Students are also angry at proposed new loan schemes and the doubling of domestic full-fee paying places.
The campaign was devised in Canberra yesterday as the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee released its response to the reforms.
Committee president Professor Deryck Schreuder said the package allowed the Government greater intervention in university decisions and autonomy.
The vice-chancellors did, however, welcome the partial deregulation in fees. AAP
© 2003 Central Coast Herald
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