Original article by Jonathan Chew, Brian Parmenter
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 14 : 13-Oct-14

The Australian Government’s planned changes to the universities sector, such as full deregulation of course fees and public funding for private education providers, raise competition policy issues as well. It may be necessary to gauge the factor valuable real estate assets held by prestige institutions can be in the setting of fees under the new model. Competition rules should also apply to education that already cover research, where the cross-subsidising of that activity is the issue. Watchdog agencies could look at possible fee-setting collusion, and mergers between providers

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