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Bill Scales

Virus shock is a chance to fix universities for good

Forget the hand-wringing over foreign students. The first priority is to make post-school education work better for Australia.

COVID-19 is forcing many parts of the economy to consider their future and make governments agonise in turn over their role in that sector's reform process.

One area that needs much self-reflection and reform is the post-school education sector, particularly universities.

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Bill Scales was chancellor of Swinburne University and chair of the Industry Commission, the predecessor to the Productivity Commission.

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