University heads divided on caps plan as some prefer Gillard policy UNIVERSITY heads are strongly divided over flagged changes to student funding with some saying they would prefer to cop the Gillard government's $2.3 billion cuts than have student numbers capped again. Greg Craven, vice-chancellor of Australian Catholic University, which has doubled in size in five years, said to put the brakes on the demand-driven funding system would be to punish those universities that had wholeheartedly embraced official government policy.