Daniel Hurst writes in The Guardian (25.2.15) ‘Some of the figures used to produce secret government modelling on university fees were “essentially invented by departmental officials”, a senior bureaucrat has said.
‘The education department’s associate secretary, Robert Griew, cast doubt over the calculations in a statement to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) opposing the release of internal government documents on the impact of the government’s higher education reforms.
‘Griew’s statement – tabled in a Senate estimates committee hearing on Wednesday – argued the release of predictions about university fees could undermine “genuine price competition” and “have a potential dampening effect on the frankness of advice” provided to ministers in future.’