The peak university lobby is outraged that the government intends to interfere with its members’ autonomy, which is what it always says when anything is proposed it does not like.
This time, Universities Australia is right, warning that floated changes to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency’s legislation would make the agency more like “an integrity commission than a quality assurance regulator”. UA even suggests university administrators might need to lawyer up, given a proposed amendment to the existing act would require university staff to provide information to TEQSA, “relevant to administration or enforcement”.
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