Today the Innovative Research Universities launches an enormous new resource to support students and graduates, created by IRU VC Fellow, Associate Professor Jessica Vanderlelie.

The National Innovation Case Studies Collection is an anthology of programmes and practice “to provide a mechanism through which to encourage cross-sector collaboration and save institutions from ‘reinventing the wheel’.”

Which it does, with a 100 plus DIY guides across 20 categories, created by staff at the six IRU universities, presumably with more to come from new member Western Sydney U.

This is work from the engine room of education, student-centric, outcome focused and built to be used by academics to benefit students everywhere.

While university lobbies loathe Simon Birmingham’s plan for performance based funding emphasising student outcomes this is surely the sort the sort of resource he will want.