The recent discussion paper on setting and monitoring academic standards for Australian Higher Education from the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) should have been a welcome contribution to a national discussion on this critically important topic. It is a shame that it has come so late and at the same time that the federal government […]
Category Archives: Higher Education and Research
The ARC has accepted the ranking of law journals proposed (reluctantly) by the Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) and it’s not good news for competition law academics. Rankings are designed to ensure research is assessed based on ‘quality’ and not merely ‘quantity’, although exactly how this will work in practice remains unclear. Good quality […]