3 flaws in Job-Ready Graduates package will add to the turmoil in Australian higher education

Abstract

The Morrison government’s Job-ready Graduates legislation has passed the Senate. This higher education policy has two major aims:

1.to steer enrolments towards courses with good employment prospects

2.to ready the higher education system for the “Costello baby boom” students, the big birth cohort who will reach university age in the mid-2020s.