Comments on: My (possible, unintentional) contribution to university protectionism

By: Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily

Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:57:45 +0000

[...] Norton owns up to his part in some protectionism likely to cause some students to have to drop out of [...]

By: Andrew Norton » Blog Archive » Raffles College and ‘central management and control’

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:34:31 +0000

[...] a blog post earlier this month, and in a subsequent Higher Education Supplement version of the post, I expressed [...]

By: Andrew Norton

Andrew Norton — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:38:18 +0000

I knew that hedge fund paper would cause me grief. Posting should be back to normal or near-normal shortly. Currently at a tourist destination wasted on a pop culture ignoramus such as myself.

By: Jc

Jc — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:11:48 +0000

In hiding after publishing a paper suggesting hedgefunds need greater regulation? Or busy at work? On leave? Or crook?

Really? Andrew, you’ve gone to the dark side?

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:13:40 +0000

Andrew - you haven’t posted for a few days. Are you on the run from libertarian partisans searching safe-house to safe-house after your collaboration with leviathan? In hiding after publishing a paper suggesting hedgefunds need greater regulation? Or busy at work? On leave? Or crook?

By: James Simpson

James Simpson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:29:08 +0000

Andrew - in that case, good going smart guy!

By: Andrew Norton

Andrew Norton — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:22:36 +0000

jadamo76 - The link times out - it worked again from my computer after I had visited the Parliament House website. I suggest you access it via the Bills link on their homepage. The legislation’s title is: Higher Education Support Amendment (Removal of the Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements and National Governance Protocols Requirements and Other Matters) Bill 2008

By: jadamo76

jadamo76 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:07:55 +0000

any chance you can actually fix the link to the legislation??

By: Andrew Norton

Andrew Norton — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:47:35 +0000

James - In this legislation, there are specific processes for revocation, so I don’t think any such provision could be implied if absent. I don’t dispute the principle that what can be granted should be able to be take away if the original condition of the grant is taken away. This was probably presented to Gillard as a ‘technical’ amendment, which at one level it is. But because of the original flawed policy, it could mean that students who don’t even know who owns their higher ed provider are disadvantaged.

Rajat - The irony is that the multinational operations affected by this law probably have better management than small purely local operations. It’s just not ‘central’ management in Australia.

By: James Simpson

James Simpson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:03:13 +0000

Andrew, if the Minister has the power to grant FEE-HELP status, he should have the power to revoke it. Grants of power to do something are normally construed to include the power to undo that thing. If that helps make you feel any better.