Students call for end to cap on university support
BRENDAN TREMBATH: Student organisations are calling on the Federal Opposition to support a Government move to abolish a cap on the number of years of Commonwealth-supported study students are entitled to.
It was introduced by the Howard government in 2005 in an attempt to crack down on so-called "professional students".
Student representatives say it's an arbitrary and discriminatory cap which is leaving many students facing an uncertain future.
Barbara Miller reports.
BARBARA MILLER: Seven years might seem like an awful long time to be a student. But for aspiring doctors who might even first complete another undergraduate degree they're easily notched up.
Medical students say a cap on Commonwealth-supported learning of seven years is unfair.
ROBERT MARSHALL: Medical students or students studying medicine don't want to be professional students. They want to be professional doctors. And these sorts of restrictions unfairly impede their ability to finish their degrees.
BARBARA MILLER: Robert Marshall is the president of the Medical Students' Association:
ROBERT MARSHALL: We're only now starting to see the real effects of this Student Learning Entitlement restriction and that is that students who have done perhaps a couple of years of study elsewhere before moving into a medicine course or those students who are trying to further their studies by for example doing a research year or an arts year suddenly find themselves in a situation where they've run out of HECS.
They no longer have the capacity to complete their medical degree. And so they get caught within the system.
BARBARA MILLER: Do you know of anyone who's had to give up studying because of this?
ROBERT MARSHALL: Well we have a lot of students who contact us and who are worried about next year what will happen if this Student Learning Entitlement isn't lifted.
Currently the suggestion is that those students who are going to run out of their learning entitlement switch to a full-fee place. But in fact in Australia there's a ban on domestic full-fee places for medicine because the number of students need to be regulated because medical students go on to be doctors there is a ban that was introduced by the government so that students can't actually take on a full-fee paying place for medicine.
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