Teqsa warns against attempts to game university status rules

Funding council reviewer signals intent to recommend ditching ERA, rewriting national interest test and circumscribing veto power

11 November

Enrolment growth will be in different types of institutions, regulator predicts, but universities say the regulatory settings enforce ‘homogeneity’

2 September

Often dismissed as an inordinately expensive quality assurance tool, ERA could become a gatekeeper for university registration

11 May

Australian reviewer who proposed benchmarks before the crisis must now decide how and when to apply them

22 February

Australian regulator advises against shortcuts, such as recruiting moonlighting big hitters, as universities confront new research quality benchmarks