The 43^rd international conference on improving higher education, “a self-supporting, non-profit organisation under U.S. law” (CMM January 16) convenes tomorrow at Charles Sturt U in Port Macquarie.  CMM has not seen a programme but wonders whether the Regional Universities Network will run a master-class on lobbying. RUN could use the way it is working to set the undergraduate performance metrics agenda as an example (CMM yesterday).