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Andrew Norton

Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute

Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute Andrew Norton directs the higher education program at the Grattan Institute. Mr Norton is the author or co-author of many articles, reports and other publications on higher education issues. These include Dropping out: the benefits and costs of trying university (2018), HELP for the future: fairer repayment of student debt (2016), The cash nexus: how teaching funds research in Australian universities (2015) and a widely-used reference report on higher education trends and policies, Mapping Australian higher education. He has worked as a ministerial adviser on higher education, as a university policy adviser, was the co-author of the government’s 2014 review of the demand driven funding system, and served on the government’s 2016-17 expert panel on higher education reform. He is an honorary fellow at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne.