Fears of university fee rise as Andrew Norton, David Kemp to review funding National Education "A policy tragedy": Andrew Norton. An Abbott government review of the university funding system will be headed by former Liberal education minister David Kemp and one of his old advisers, fuelling fears student fees could increase. The appointment of Grattan Institute higher education program director Andrew Norton as the joint head of the review suggests the government will not go as far as scrapping the uncapped system of university student places. Mr Norton, an adviser to Dr Kemp when the latter was a minister in the Howard government, released a paper in August warning that any reintroduction of caps on university places would be "a policy tragedy." Instead, he suggested the government could increase student fees as a way of dealing with funding difficulties in the sector. The former Labor government shifted from a capped system to a demand-driven one, with the government funding places for as many domestic undergraduate students as the universities were able to accept, except in medicine. This resulted in a big increase in the number of students going in for higher education but prompted concerns in some quarters that the quality of the system could be harmed. Education Minister Christopher Pyne announced the review on Tuesday, saying it was good practice for governments to monitor policies to ensure they were working as intended.