Timing

Tuition fee regime

Loans availability

1973-1986

No tuition fees

None-no fees

Higher education contribution scheme (HECS), 1989

Standard (delayed) tuition fee

Tuition loans for public sector Students

Reforms of 1997

Higher (deferred) differential fees.

Tuition loans for public sector students

Since 2005

Higher (deferred) differential fees.

Loans extended to private-sector students