A private provider with a recent troubled past has much work to do to get to square one.
When a quality audit begins with the phrase so and so is "at a challenging phase of development", it's code for "help!" The Australian Institute of Music is in such a "challenging phase of development" that its recent AUQA report recommended it get reaudited in one year's time. It's not that the institute is without its obvious qualities and doesn't do some things really well. It's just that having been through the turmoil of an ownership dispute, there were a lot of gaps in what the AUQA panel could actually audit. In AUQA's estimation, not only does AIM need to redefine its institutional...