But that's not entirely accurate.

Although the Coalition government hasn't released a higher education policy this election campaign, it has released a discussion paper, outlining a proposal to introduce "partial deregulation". Partial deregulation would allow universities to set the fees for some but not all of their courses.

The sector has been at a stand-still since 2014 when former education minister Christopher Pyne failed to pass legislation that would have fully deregulated the sector.