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In the absence of public appetite to invest in public education, a measure of fee deregulation is the only way left to fund education quality to a reasonable standard.
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Davis, G. (2017). Australia: Why I Support the Deregulation of Higher Education. In: Mihut, G., Altbach, P.G., Wit, H.d. (eds) Understanding Global Higher Education. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-044-8_15
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