The new national quality agency will have sharp teeth when it comes to private providers, but not universities.
The federal government's new Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) will have life and death powers over private colleges but not universities, a Sydney higher education conference heard last week. Dr George Brown, academic director of Think Education Group, told the Education Outlook Conference that TEQSA would not be given the authority to establish or deregister universities. "At the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment it was clear that universities wish to - and my understanding is they will - remain autonomous institutions created under state-based...
