He will become a professor of practice in higher education at the university’s Centre for Social Research and Methods

The centre’s work includes the ANU Poll and Australian Election Studies and it is connected to the university subsidiary the Social Research Centre, which creates the top-quality Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching.

Professor Norton will continue his decades of work on higher education data analysis at the interface of policy and politics. He has advised ministers and mandarins, undertaken federal government reviews and quizzically crunched the numbers on plans and polemics presented by state and federal governments of all persuasions.

Want to know what has happened, is happening and may well happen in post-school education? If Norton does not know he is working on it.