Australian performance-based funding system ‘a game of chance’

Focus on graduate employment means universities will be judged on an issue over which they have limited control

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October 7, 2019

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Chris Havergal Joyce Lau

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by kimbowa on October 8, 2019 - 12:26am

Well, at Lear’s there will be a place for all the old OFSTED inspectors as reviewers in the new Australian HE arena!

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