How will Universities Cope with Funding Cuts in 2009?

By now most universities will have prepared and probably approved their budgets for 2009. The financial chill will be a bit brisker than usual, though there’s a chance it may develop into frostbite, resulting in the amputation of limbs. It’s no secret that public funding for higher education in Australia has been falling – in real terms – for many years, and this is at a time when it is growing pretty much everywhere else. For the last three years we had a “special” increase of 2½ per cent p...