Education

Education is a taxpayer funded fundamental utility which must be allocated appropriate funding to provide quality guidance, mentoring, training and education with appropriately paid and appropriately resourced teachers, teaching facilities and associated resources.

Taxpayer funded utilities exist to provide a functioning service, private corporations exist for profit – two totally different outcomes.

Public schools:
Governments must provide adequate and relevant funding to ensure quality education through quality service delivery and appropriate and relevant resources and facilities to ensure students have the skills required to continue to further education and/or enter the workforce.

Private schools:
Any entity which commercialises education must not receive taxpayer funding unless they demonstrate that their profits are being used solely to provide positive, objective, non-evangelical educational outcomes for their recipients.

Any entity with commercial educational operation with evangelical and/or religious focus who does not pay shire rates and/or any other fees with similar concept, but who has financial and other resources available through any of its directly or indirectly controlled subsidiaries, investment operations or partner companies must not receive taxpayer funding, nor have access to any rebates and/or discounts.

University:
University education isn’t free, neither is the loan provided to students or the interest on the loans accrued by students. Our tax money pays for it and appropriate, affordable mechanisms are required to ensure loans are repaid so there are sufficient tax funds available for future student loans – the cycle continues.

To ensure our tax money is used efficiently and effectively Governments must provide adequate and relevant funding to ensure tertiary education is available to everyone through quality service delivery and appropriate and relevant resources and facilities to ensure students have the skills required to enter the workforce and/or continue to further education. Regular review and similar mechanisms must be in place to ensure service delivery standards are met.

Having previously attended college and university, and battled to live off Centrelink I fully understand the difficulty and life stress associated with the constant battle for sufficient finance to survive while complying with study and associated obligations.

HECS/HELP must be expanded to TAFE, College and similar institutions for the same reason at it applies to University – to make education affordable.

Any entity which commercialises education must demonstrate that their profits are being used solely to provide positive, objective, non-evangelical educational outcomes for their recipients, and that their service delivery does not cause any more financial or psychological stress than is otherwise experienced by recipients.

Any entity which commercialises education with evangelical and/or religious focus who does not pay shire rates and/or taxes, and/or any other fees with similar concept, but who has financial and other resources and investment available through any of its directly or indirectly controlled subsidiaries, investment operations or partner companies must not receive taxpayer funding, nor have access to any rebates or other discounts but must ensure that their service delivery does not cause any more financial or psychological stress than is otherwise experienced by recipients.

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