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A tale of two regulators… (update 14 December 2025 re: correspondence between TEQSA and the ANU) TEQSA The last few weeks has seen Australia’s higher education regulator, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) flex its muscles in its compliance assessment of the Australian National University (ANU). In an appearance before the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee inquiry into the “Quality of governance at Australian...
What ATEC will and won’t do On 26 November 2025 the Australian government introduced the Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025 into the parliament. The legislation specifies the following objectives for ATEC: As Secretary of the Department of Education, Tony Cook PSM, explained in his appearance at Senate Estimates on Thursday 4 December 2025 “the ATEC actually doesn’t have a role around policy. The ATEC has...
Looking Beyond the Headlines: Why Australia Needs a Collective Focus on Long-Term Unemployment John Burn-Murdoch’s recent Financial Times analysis (shared on Bluesky last week) highlights an increasingly hidden challenge: while headline rates for people who are not in education or employment (NEET) are stable or improving in the UK and US, the subgroup of young adults who are not working, not studying, not seeking work, and not parenting...
Australia’s 15 new private higher education providers As 2025 draws towards a close and with TEQSA’s annual report for 2024-25 having recently been released, it is interesting to reflect on the changes which have happened in the last two years in the Australian higher education sector. The sector is undergoing a period of significant change. Some of that change is deliberate – arising from the government’s Universities Accord Panel process...
Higher education 2024: which students enrolled where? In the last fortnight we have seen the release of the full student datasets for higher education and VET. In two updates I have looked at a key cohort in each sector. In the higher education sector I have chosen to focus on domestic commencing students – as the government prepares to make changes to attract more new students into higher...
VET 2024: which students enrolled where? In the last fortnight we have seen the release of the full student datasets for higher education and VET. In two updates I have looked at a key cohort in each sector. In my first report on the higher education sector I chose to focus on domestic commencing students – as the government prepares to make changes to attract more new students...
