Unlike banks such as Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), failing UK universities won't have it easy if they're near collapse. Announcing this at Wonkfest – a higher education festival in London – Sir Michael Barber, the head of the ...

We've since moved onto banks, but let's not forget the mess we had to mop up a couple of years ago. People were signed up to higher education courses by door-to-door salespeople or via cold calls. Often from low-income communities and ...

For the first time, higher education providers will be assessed for registration renewal purposes on their provision of student support services. The additional standards, which came into effect in 2017, were largely a response to the Human Rights Commission's report on sexual harassment ...

Commissioners reappointed TEQSA has announced the reappointment of three commissioners. Professor Nick Saunders will continue as chief commissioner, with Dr Lin Martin and Professor Cliff Walsh as commissioners. Saunders served as vice-chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 2004 to ...

It’s spotlight time for the lengthily-named higher education regulators and advisors, TESQA (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency) and HESP (Higher Education Standards Panel). First, TEQSA released first-year university attrition statistics. Now, HESP is commenting on them, as well as ...

The who, where and why of higher education attrition have been revealed by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the higher education regulator. Its report details the latest dropout rates (from 2014) for first-year students from 130 providers. The ...

Former University of Newcastle vice-chancellor professor Nicholas Saunders has been named acting chief commissioner and CEO of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). In announcing the appointment, which comes as the government seeks to deliver sweeping higher education reforms, ...

Educators discuss tweaks as regulator continues with reform. By Dallas Bastian. The bad decisions of a besieged TEQSA are the result of the atmosphere surrounding the national regulator, one academic proposed at a forum in Melbourne. During the Higher Ed ...

With an increasing number of people doing their courses via the internet a leading academic says we are risking losing students to overseas providers. Australia’s higher education quality regulator is obstructing advances in educational technologies and is jeopardising the nation’s ...

The review of learning and teaching has been a great opportunity for higher education but support is needed for it to continue. As a result of the ALTC’s Learning and Teaching Standards project (LTAS), disciplines across Australia have available to ...