The Universities Accord draft contains 'spiky' ideas, but puts a question mark over the spikiest one of all

  • Written by: Gregory Michael McCarthy, Emeritus Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia

When he released the Universities Accord interim report last week, Education Minister Jason Clare drew attention to the echidna on the front cover.

As he explained, he had asked the review team to be bold.

To offer up a few big spiky ideas. They took me at my word, hence the echidna on the front page.

Clare also says he wants the ideas in the report...

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