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.

Commissioned in November 2022 by the then-new Labor Government, the Universities Accord is the first broad review of the tertiary education sector since 2008. Covering universities and TAFE, it aims to repair what almost everyone agrees is a broken, inequitable and fragmented system that is failing to meet Australia’s current and future employment needs.

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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.