Higher Education Reform Summit 2014

Key Topics

• The reform process: where are we at – and what does it mean?
• Affordability and Access
• The place of research in the new HE landscape
• Ensuring quality in a deregulated market
• Implications for disciplines, professions and the labour market
• Quality, Equality and Economy
• Whither the Australian academic workforce?
• Lessons from reform
• Experiments in action: what have we learnt about universities over the last 25 years?
• Grappling with the cost disease in higher education
• What do we want from our HE sector?
• What makes a top-20 university?
• Student-customers: student expectations in a deregulated market
• Internationalisation and the reform agenda: winners and losers
• Higher Education Reform: Lessons from the UK
• Implications of reforms for online education
• Working through pricing dilemmas
• Transformation in the private higher education sector
• Lessons from audits: financial sustainability of universities
• Setting fees: ethical and tactical issues
• A corporate model that supports teaching, learning and research
• Strategic budgeting and forecasting: new financial challenges
• Entering the bond market: risks and opportunities
• Transformation in the super industry and the implications for universities

Who should Attend

Key players from the higher education sector.