Australia: Uni funding must rise to match Oxford

by E Wayne Ross on December 26, 2007

The Australian: Uni funding must rise to match Oxford

AUSTRALIA will never have a world-class university such as Harvard or Oxford without dramatically increasing funding to the tertiary sector, the head of the nation’s elite universities has warned.

Group of Eight universities chair Alan Robson said the country could not compete at the elite international level unless campuses were funded on a similar scale to Harvard – which benefits from a private endowment fund of more than $34.9 billion.