Wednesday Keynote: Higher education policy: A new bureaucratic era? - Professor Andrew Norton Monash University (VIC)
| Wednesday, July 9, 2025 |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| BelleVue Ballroom 2 - Level 3 |
Overview
BelleVue Ballroom 2 - Level 3
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Both the Labor and Liberal parties have lost confidence in universities. Universities face new regulations and audits in areas of student academic and personal risk. The new National Student Ombudsman can intervene in areas its state equivalents could not. International student enrolments are de facto capped. The Australian Tertiary Education Commission could restrict university decision making on what courses to offer and which domestic students to take. As institutional autonomy and market freedoms fade, what are the implications for Australian universities?
Speaker
Professor Andrew Norton
Professor
Monash University
Higher education policy: A new bureaucratic era?
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMBiography
Andrew Norton is Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Monash Business School at Monash University.
He joined Monash in January 2025 from POLIS:The Centre for Social Policy Research as the Australian National University, where he was Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy.
Prior to the ANU, Mr Norton was the Higher Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute, a public policy think-tank.
Mr Norton is the author or co-author of many publications on higher education topics. His Mapping Australian higher education 2023 is an overview of higher education policy and trends.
In 2013-14 he was the co-author of a government-commissioned review of the demand driven student funding system. He was on the ministerial reference group for the Universities Accord.
