A national scheme offering HECs style loans for university graduates to launch startups has been scrapped after only eight people utilised the pilot and it struggled to compete with university’s existing founder supports.
Government officials on Friday revealed only around $80,000 in loans had been dispersed in the pilot, which was a Labor election commitment in 2022 and required years of design work and legislative change.
The eight participants that …
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