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Reading the Worst Australian today and listening to the radio, apparently applications for courses at Western Australian public univerities UWA, Curtin. ECU and Murdoch are declining for next year with signifigantly less applicants for spots in courses in 2005 compared to previous years. There is a reported 7 percent slump. On the other hand WA's only private university, Notre Dame university has currently experiences a 52% increase in applications for courses at their uni. They have recieved 2330 applications, compared to 1526 last year. Staff at these unis believe that the reason for this is because students are being turned away from the fear of paying full fees up front for places at public universites because they cant afford them. Notre Dame has a government introduced program for places at private universities called Fee-Help which allows students to defer up front full fees starting from next year. More students are also turining to TAFE aswell as Uni for next year.
Could the introduction of full fee places backfire on the government and these public unis when yopu consider that students are being turned away from going to these unis because of them and the unis are trying to get money for full fee places and they cant because students wont apply for these places.
PS - Actually I should leave out Curtin because they have knocked back full fee places aswell as the 25% increase in fees for all their courses because they wisely belived that they didnt need them because they have enough money and funding.
Could the introduction of full fee places backfire on the government and these public unis when yopu consider that students are being turned away from going to these unis because of them and the unis are trying to get money for full fee places and they cant because students wont apply for these places.
PS - Actually I should leave out Curtin because they have knocked back full fee places aswell as the 25% increase in fees for all their courses because they wisely belived that they didnt need them because they have enough money and funding.

