It also forced graduates to pay back student loans sooner but extended fee help to non-university courses such as diplomas and associate degrees.
Belton told Guardian Australia that hospitalisation isn't always necessary, as in other states and territories the procedure is often carried out by GPs who have done diplomas in obstetrics and gynaecology, as well as in freestanding abortion clinics.
With no effective mission group, there are concerns about the quality of provision at some alternative providers, particularly those offering sub-degree courses, such as diplomas.
A government report estimates that perhaps 40% of teenagers will abandon GCSEs over the next ten years to study for diplomas instead, offered by secondary schools or nearby colleges of further education.
They did find, however, that the average income of black people with high- school diplomas in gentrifying areas soared.Gentrifiers can make life better for locals in plenty of ways, argues Stuart Butler of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank.
And although £590m has already been spent, the government did not know what the full cost of the diploma will be.The report is just one reason to doubt the wisdom of the diplomas endeavour.
They charged up to 190,000 yuan ($30,000) each, selling the diplomas mainly to corporate executives.
Meanwhile universities, with the government's blessing, have been offering diplomas in areas like law, sociology and inter-faith relations which, without delving into theology, are meant to be useful for religious practitioners.
Local officials wield enormous power all over Nigeria, often determining who can get college graduation diplomas, business forms and, most contentiously, papers indicating who is an "indigenous citizen" in a particular area.
But this has less to do with the diplomas that hacks wield than with the competitiveness of the newspaper and magazine market.
Less than 30% of school children take pre-university diplomas, compared with 36-37% in the state as a whole, complains the town's mayor, Adolf Sauerland.Progress would be swifter if collaboration were closer.
