Published: September 23, 2020
Labor slams government plan to bring forward funding for universities with no increase in total spending
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The Group of Eight universities has cautiously welcomed a plan that could see hundreds of millions of dollars of research funding brought forward as a stop gap to prevent massive job losses.
On Wednesday, The Australian reported that a group of vice-chancellors and the education minister, Dan Tehan, are considering the plan to bring funding from 2024-25 forward to 2021-22 to support research during the Covid-19 crisis without increasing total spending.
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