The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency has quietly celebrated its first decade with past and present commissioners and staff attending “an informal event”

CEO Alistair Maclean describes the agency’s establishment following a recommendation from the Bradley Review of HE, although he makes no mention of TEQSA’s difficult start, when the Braithwaite, Lee Dow review of the agency reported, “all new regulators have teething problems and their cultures can and do evolve. The strength of the sector’s reaction however, indicates that something more fundamental has gone awry”(CMM August 6 2013).

But that which was wrong was addressed and TEQSA has made it ten – as for what comes next, “the next ten years will be a period characterised by new challenges, requiring us to draw on lessons from our first decade and be innovative in our thinking and approach.” Mr Maclean says. Who would have thought!