The government’s student place funding bill includes imposing on universities an unnecessary bunch of rules designed to keep VET private providers honest

According to the Independent Research Universities, the new requirements proposed to apply are in Division 19 of the Higher Education Support Act, which is twice the length it was a generation back.

I’s not the only new example of officials doing not much with way more. A learned reader points to questions officials would like people to ask about the contents of the National Priorities and Industry Linkages Fund consultation paper (CMM Friday). There is a ceiling of two pages on responses, just a little longer than the space taken to set out the 18 questions.