Nobody has any complaints about learners of all ages having access to government support to learn new skills and pursue new interests.
The Lifelong Loan Entitlement, as proposed, is just one among many possible approaches to doing this. Every major political party has, or is developing, their own approach to support for lifelong tertiary learning.
With the principle settled, the arguments between competing systems are necessarily technical – and burdened with projections about the future earnings of individuals and the course of the national economy through what are likely to be difficult times ahead.
