The Week That Was
Key news from the past week in Australian HE
WA Merger Recommendations On Minister’s Desk
A report commissioned by WA Tertiary and International Education Minister Tony Buti into potential benefits and costs of university mergers in the west has lobbed into the Minister’s office, with much anticipation as to what the Government might propose.
Redefining HE Leadership
The next era of higher education will not be defined by policy reform or funding settings alone – it will be shaped by the strength of leadership across Australia’s universities, Universities Australia CEO Luke Sheehy will tell the Future Campus HE People & Performance conference in June.
Rankings still rated unacceptable by ARC
The ARC continues work on new measures of research output and insists that despite not measuring national research performance since the last ERA in 2018, existing rankings are not the answer.