Many teacher education academics never much liked Alan Tudge when he was minister. His referring to their “ideological resistance” to teaching methods he approved of might have had some to do with that

But now that Mr Tudge is a shadow of his former self  he is more easily ignored and the teacher ed community appears keen to get their own agenda on the policy table for the government’s proposed universities accord.

Thus Michelle Simmons, (education dean, Western Sydney U) suggests, “recent reforms to the teaching profession, along with the resetting of research priorities, loom as challenges. Within this vital part of the higher education sector consensus across stakeholders has been difficult to find. How higher education is to equip future educators is a matter of national priority, and it requires funding and support in order to persist as a long-term research and teaching asset.”