Terry Moran is Federation University’s new chancellor. Mr Moran is a mandarin’s mandarin, a former head of the Victorian premier’s department and of PM and C under Kevin Rudd. Mr Moran is also a training policy veteran, the founding CEO of the Keating Government’s Australian National Training Authority, during the last great effort to create a national training system.

This a big win for dual-sector Federation U. Mr Moran has recently concluded a review of SA TAFE, which placed the agency’s problems in a national policy context (below). And his familiarity with the labyrinth of policy will be an enormously valuable resource for the university.