What does the Universities Accord Final Report mean for the arts?

This blueprint for major reform of tertiary education contains little that's specifically about the arts or humanities, but it's there in the detail.
University students in graduation robes throw mortarboards in the air.

Billed as a blueprint for major long-term and lasting reform, the Australian Universities Accord Final Report was released on 25 February by the Federal Minister for Education, Jason Clare.

‘What this report says is that, by the middle of this century, we’ll need a workforce where 80% of that workforce haven’t just finished high school, but they’ve got a TAFE qualification or a university degree as well.’

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.