UASU warns new funding Bill risks making students pay more Education 20 min ago

To remedy this, the union demands that the proposed legislation expressly recognize that national collective bargaining obligations affecting public university academic staff are not student costs.

As such, they insist universities require separate and predictable funding for academic staff, teaching, research, infrastructure maintenance and other public-service obligations, including clinical training and services provided by university facilities to public health institutions.

The Union has asked for a full fiscal and institutional impact assessment before the law takes effect, covering the projected cost of student financing as well as the recurrent cost of running public universities.