The Australian    |    13 October 2012 Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Greg Craven thinks it now implausible that the higher education regulator TEQSA and the vocational training regulator ASQA will be combined because of the fundamentally different natures of the two sectors. TEQSA and ASQA were developed in “close consultation and, following their establishment in July last year, the two signed a memorandum of understanding and issued a joint communiqué on the regulation of dual-sector providers. The  perception that the two regulators might merge any time soon was hosed down last month by Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans: My objective is to get … [Read more...]