The Week That Was

Key news of the week in HE, including next steps with AI introduction and use, and a heady cocktail of regulation, funding uncertainty and disruptors.
Shorten: Business Could Fund $5.2B for Unis, But There’s a Quid Pro Quo

Bill Shorten gets what universities have to do has changed; now all he has to do is convince the people who work in them and find more money to make the system work.
Part 6 – What are Universities For – and Who Gets to Decide?

Eight centuries after the medieval western universities first claimed jurisdiction over their own affairs, the modern Australian university remains a self-governing corporation in law. Yet the context in which that autonomy operates has been transformed.
What Jobs & Skills Australia Could Do Next

A review finds JSA has had considerable early success, and proscribes approaches to continue that trend.