CSU backs a better ATEC

After months of HE sector-wide criticism of legislation to create the regulator, Charles Sturt University (CSU) Vice-Chancellor Renée Leon backed it Tuesday.
Part 2: What are universities for – and who gets to decide?

Part 2 of Sean Brawley’s potted history of university governance in Australia and beyond.
Relationships between defence and HE “arguably calcified”

Even when there is “sufficient coverage” in defence capability research – as per AUKUS – access to funding for academics and industry is “not always straightforward, visibility is scarce and fragmentation systemic.”
ATEC Unpopularity: How It Came To This

When the Senate committee inquiry into the ATEC founding legislation takes evidence on Friday, it will not be an endorse-a-thon; at least if the Liberals have anything to do with it.