In higher education quality is in the eye of the beholder

By Jane O'Callaghan Kotzmann. In his National Press Club address, Christopher Pyne argued that higher education deregulation will “transform opportunities for Australians, particularly young Australians to get the quality higher education in Australia that they deserve” and enable Australia to “create some of the best universities in the world and the best higher education system in the world”. The problem is that the government’s version of quality is not necessarily the same quality that potential students, their families and academia may have in mind. More...