The caravan rolls on: 18 months after Bradley

Are the Bradley reforms on track? Depends on which ones you’re talking about.

While several of the key policy reform areas as outlined in the Bradley review are on track, the government has lost sight of an overall strategy for implementation of a unified tertiary education sector. Kim Bannikoff, director of the Queensland Studies Authority, last week said one of the most significant failures to implement the Bradley reforms to date was the government's inability to drive, or even define, a unified tertiary education sector. He said the momentum of early speeches and the 2009 budget, backed up by explicit targets, had been lost due to a lack of clear policy focus. The...