This document details the next steps in the Government’s reforms of the tertiary education system as part of the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2024–25. It covers the establishment of the Australian Tertiary Education Commission and significant reforms to how universities are funded, including through a new managed growth funding system and needs-based funding.

An examination of governance failures in public universities that finds a decline in accountability and transparency, resulting in poor workforce planning, excessive executive pay, and systemic wage theft. The report recommends a federal parliamentary inquiry and a new regulatory framework.

The Australian Government has committed to implementing a new Needs-based Funding system as a core component of funding for higher education teaching and learning. This paper outlines the proposed key elements.

This report examines the critical challenges facing New Zealand's university sector, based on a recent tertiary education symposium, 'The Future of Our Universities,' held in May 2024. The report highlights several pressing issues threatening the sustainability and quality of tertiary education in New Zealand.

In 2022, the Australian Government launched an ambitious process to develop the Australian Universities Accord to drive transformative reform of Australia’s higher education system. This report outlines the system architecture for a proposed new funding model predominantly for Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) that enables more students to attend university to meet Australia’s future skills needs.