In Features this morning

An agency to oversight the Accord is one future for HE relations with government. Roger Smyth explains how it’s done in NZ, HERE and where it came from HERE

plus Sean Brawley and colleagues on how Uni Wollongong is learning to live with risk. Another instalment in their series on how the university restructured to revitalise admin, HERE

and Sarah O’Shea (Curtin U) reminds us that the Accord should address a fundamental purpose of universities: creating better societies.New in Commissioning Editor Sally Kift’s celebrated series, Needed now in learning and teaching