Who give Australian University money?Does the government afford the most of national universities?
Australian universities get around 10% of money from International Students, 30% from local students, 50% from the government and around 10% from private dontation. The government money is both money directly from he government to the university – the rest is grant money for research. It might be interesting to know that there are very few if any university lecturers who are employed to just lecture – lecturers need to get grants for research – that is their main function, the lecturing component is secondary and does not form the “function” of the job – if they dont get money from the government to pay their salary, others salaries (admin, tech for instance), or pay for research, they could be the best teacher in the world and they would still be fired.
