NEEDS-BASED FUNDING

RUN strongly supports a mechanism that Students at the intersection of multiple allocates per-student Needs-based Funding categories of underrepresentation face appropriately, operating within a broader cumulative challenges to their tertiary funding system that preserves the agency of aspiration, participation, engagement, and a student to choose the course, provider and completion, and this shou. [...] approach would account for the heightened attrition rates among the students of regional Regional Loading and remote Australia than the national RUN strongly supports the inclusion of a average (as cited by the consultation paper) dedicated regional loading in the proposed which is a level of attrition that exceeds that Needs-based Funding model, subject to the experienced by low SES cohorts natio. [...] The categories of underrepresentation should Commonwealth Government’s 2012 Review have the compounding effects of disadvantage of Funding for Schooling (the Gonski review) accounted for in the allocation of Needs-based investigated the compounding effects of Funding. [...] • How soon will the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES) RUN OPPOSES undertake the work to define the scope the proposed Framework as the accountability/ of direct, academic and inclusion, and reporting mechanism to provide regulatory indirect supports? oversight to the expenditure of Needs-based • How much time will providers be Funding. [...] afforded in responding to the Framework options in advance of the implementation Each provider is best-placed to know the of needs-based funding? unique needs of their respective student populations, and they ought to be able to RUN would seek greater clarification on continuously innovate to refine those supports the consultation paper’s requirement of that best meet student need.