The government intends to create a National Priorities and Industry Linkage Fund which will reward universities for improving graduate employability and connecting with business. Problem is the proposed way it will work is lost in a thicket of metrics

Fortunately, the Innovative Research Universities group is never daunted by policy weeds and presents eight recommendations on how the fund can work, in a submission to the discussion paper.

But while these are complex IRU’s overall message isn’t; “behind the general metrics and the specific programmes and projects sits the general activity of the universities to ensure a good education for students that leads to good graduate employment outcomes.  It is important that NPILF does not overwhelm that core activity.”