Note: Mapping with revised and updated HELP repayments can be downloaded here.

The chart data with updates is available here.

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Future Campus this morning has a story on Mapping Australian higher education 2023. I’m delaying other publicity efforts due to a methodological error I made when updating HELP repayments last year. This is in the process of being corrected in the pdf version.

People not likely to cite Mapping on HELP repayments can download the report here.

I only noticed my mistake when working on another problem, which is that the report dates quickly. Its production was outsourced and so it is not easy to update the text (which we occasionally did for the Grattan Institute editions of Mapping). At a point during production I made a call to only fix errors.

However I can more easily update chart data, and it was when doing this for new HELP repayment data that I noticed a problem with the earlier update. The repayment time series with later data, along with data behind the other charts and some other updates or additions, is available here.

This is the sixth edition of the Mapping Australian higher education series. The first five were published between 2012 and 2018 when I worked for the Grattan Institute.

The series aims to provide an overview of higher education policy and trends. Most information in each Mapping is from publicly available sources, but (I hope) Mapping makes it easier to understand.

Unlike with the later Grattan editions, this one has no special chapter covering one topic in more detail with new research. However it has new sections on work-integrated learning, student finances, student mental health, and international student migration.