It’s time to reshape universities for national good
Our tertiary institutions are a national asset, but collaboration with industry is a missed opportunity and should be a focus of the review now under way.
Australia’s university sector is undeniably one of our greatest national assets. Our higher education system has world-class institutions, world-leading frameworks for funding and access, and some world-beating research.
But Australia seems to have a peculiar problem. Despite most of our institutions sitting in big cities or towns, we rank near the bottom of the OECD league table on university-industry collaboration.
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Innes Willox is chief executive of the Australian Industry Group.
