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University leaders have sound commercial reasons for not selling and leasing back campus buildings to raise funds for capital investment, and the idea this is a magic bullet ignores reality, writes Fred Hilmer.  

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Vice-Chancellor Fred Hilmer has welcomed the significant funding boost for higher education announced in the Federal Budget. Major wins for UNSW include $48 million for the College of Fine Arts and $20 million towards a new institute to fight HIV/AIDS.