Beyond $50k arts degrees: what has Job-ready Graduates done to postgrad study?

Igor Suka/ Getty Images Under the Morrison government’s Job-ready Graduates scheme, the price of arts degrees more than doubled to over A$50,000. But while attention has understandably been focused on undergraduate degrees, what has happened at the postgraduate level? In a new research paper we explore how the scheme slashed study costs for many postgraduate students, especially in nursing. ‘Full-fee’ versus ‘student contribution’ places Since the late 1980s, universities have offered…