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Creating Academic Boards / Senates capable of

responding to the Bradley Reforms

Professor Todd Walker Chair, Academic Board

+ From Bradley Review to Bradley Reforms

n Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011

n The Bill provides for TEQSA to be established one month after the Bill receives Royal Assent and to commence regulatory operations 6 months later.

…the quality agenda is the new agenda

+TEQSA BILL 2011

n  Part 1 Objects and Definitions n  Part 2 Basic Principles

n  regulatory necessity n  reflecting risk n  proportionate regulation.

n  Part 3 Registration n  Part 4 Accreditation of Courses of Study n  Part 5 Higher Education Standards Framework n  Part 6 Investigative Powers n  Part 7 Enforcement n  Part 8 TEQSA n  Part 9 Higher Education Standards Panel n  Part 10 Administrative Law matters n  Part 11 National register of HE Providers n  Part 12 Miscellaneous

+Part 5 Higher Education Standards Framework

1.  Provider Registration Standards

2.  Qualification Standards

3.  Learning and Teaching Standards

4.  Research Standards

5.  Information Standards

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+Competing Priorities

Policy review in the tertiary sector is at an unprecedented level. Each review has the capacity to fundamentally transform the manner in which we operate

n  Senate committee inquiries Compulsory Student Fees

Industry Skills Councils

Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment Bill

National Health and Hospitals Network Bill

n  House of Representatives committee inquiries

Australia's International Research Engagement

n  Government departments Inquiries

Overseas Student Health Cover - Submission to the Departmental Review of Overseas Student Health

Cover

Research Workforce Strategy - Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research consultation paper

Review of Immunity from Seisure legislation - submission to the Department of Environment, Water,

Heritage and the Arts

Simpler visas: Creating a simpler framework for temporary and permanent entry into Australia -

Department of Immigration and Citizenship discussion paper

Collaboration Development Program - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

draft guidelines

Structural Adjustment Fund - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations draft

guidelines

Review of the General Skilled Migration points test - Department of Immigration and Citizenship

discussion paper

Review of Regional Loading - submission to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace

Relations

An Indicator Framework for Higher Education Teaching and Learning Performance Funding - Department

of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations discussion paper

Migration Update - Universities Australia response to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship

Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations draft guidelines

Measuring the Socio-Economic Status of Higher Education Students - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations discussion paper

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Observations

Observations

Awareness

Communication

Empowering

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Awareness

Harmonising institutional aspirations with the new environment in which the University operates is the biggest challenge of Academic Boards

Access Quality Cost

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Communication Strong formal and informal communication networks are required -  formal networks to ensure

organisational goals are reached. -  informal networks to share ideas,

information and feedback.

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Empowering

Subsidiarity – the lowest level in an organisation at which decisions can be made provides formal authority to act.

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Practical Examples

Academic Boards and Senates can employ a range of strategies to remain responsive and agile to the rapid shift in policy.

n Awareness n Emerging issue (hot topics) n Exemplars of good practice

n Evidence based (data)

n Communication n Formal

n Committees |Seminars

n  Informal n Talks | Newsletters

n Empowering n Create a delegations register

n Review terms of reference

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Academic Board

Research Committee

ERA

Curriculum Committee

AQF

Learning and Teaching

Committee

ALTC

Quality Committee

PRS

Appeals Committee

Academic Board

Executive

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CABS provides a forum to raise issues of concern, discuss strategies and present examples of how best to address the issues

We are able to contribute to the debate at many levels

Form and function?

…the Role of CABS

Awareness Communication

Empowering