It’s way bigger than the hardy perennial of Uni SA and Uni A combining and it isn’t imminent either

Uni SA VC David Lloyd is reported in The Advertiser as favouring merging two of the state’s three universities into two – it’s an idea he is long liked. “’I am an advocate of a duopoly in a market the size of SA – with two strong, differentiated institutions affording choice to students and partners,” he told CMM informally months back.

But to best serve the state it would need to be a comprehensive post-school restructure – including TAFE and not just sticking two unis together.

It sounds like an extension of Professor Lloyd’s four principles for universities which includes, “We must move towards the provision of education on demand, towards tailored education on demand which is decoupled from the confines of strict disciplinary shackles, education which isn’t only linked to bounded degree parchments, but rather is linked to the validated competencies of the successful learner,” (CMM August 14 2018).

But SA education observers say nothing is about to happen.