Thousands of furious students from around Australia have signed a petition calling for a change to the HECS debt indexation system. University of Sydney student Nariman Dein called for her followers ...

Thousands of Australians saddled with more than $100,000 in HECS-HELP debt. Picture: NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar The number of Australians saddled with more than $100,000 in student debt has risen ...

TONY EASTLEY: Students and former students owe the Commonwealth more than $20 billion for their tertiary education. HECS is the nation's higher education debt and each year it grows. The Education ...

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has released the country's 100 largest HELP/HECS debts through a Freedom of Information request – and the highest debt is a whopping $737,000. The second-biggest has ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that if re-elected his government will wipe 20 per cent off the HECS debts currently owed by university graduates, saving some Australians as much as ...

Unpaid HECS-HELP loans will jump by 4.7 per cent on Saturday, which is annually indexed to the consumer price index (CPI). It’ll mean more pain for those repaying their students loans after already an ...

Students who attend small private institutions tend to be much happier with their undergraduate learning experience than those from large public universities, but end up with significantly higher debt ...