Scrutiny and Transparency: The New Standards Regime in Tertiary Education
Michael Beaton-Wells,
BA / LLB, Master of Marketing
Higher education executive with strategy, finance and legal background
Martin Riordan
CEO, TAFE Directors Australia
Professor Lynn Meek (Chair)
Director, LH Martin Institute
Australia established the Australian Universities Quality
Agency in 2000 with the main focus on internal evaluation. After a
decade it has become apparent that more is needed. The Tertiary
Education Quality and Standards Authority, together with the national
regulator in Vocational Education and Training, and federal government
performance-based funding, usher in a new policy in which internal
evaluation is joined by rigorous external scrutiny, and national
consistency in accreditation and program standards.