In Features this morning how a universities commission could work

There are Accord submissions which call for one, so Roger Smyth explains why New Zealand has a Tertiary Education Commission and how it works.

“Much of the underlying system architecture has endured. There remains a broad political consensus on the system design. Overall, the reforms are still working. Sore points have been soothed. Problems arise; there are changes every year. There is sometimes controversy.  But the focus now is on marginal improvement within a sound foundation,” he writes.

His paper, which CMM commends to any passing Accordista, is HERE.

plus Rankings began 20 years ago. Angel Calderon (RMIT) reports on what’s changed and what’s about to.

and Ashleigh Prosser and Shannon Johnston (Murdoch U) on Murdoch U’s new teaching and learning building and the CHAT it makes possible. NEW in Commissioning Editor Sally Kift’s celebrated series, Needed now in teaching and learning.