Program · Outcome 2: Promote growth in economic productivity and social wellbeing through access to quality higher education, international education, and international quality research
Program 2.3: Higher Education Support
The program aims to ensure the quality of our higher education system is maintained and improved. The program also aims to improve access to, and education outcomes for, students from underrepresented cohorts.17
Department of Education, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 63 reported
$784m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$693m (−46.9%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education Support Act 2003 | administered | $1.4bn | $745m | −$694m −48.2% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 410 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $38m | $39m | +$731k +1.9% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 409 |