The Australian    |      26 October 2012 TEQSA chief commissioner Carol Nicoll has told a Senate estimates committee the higher education regulator has written to its 173 providers asking to be notified of any financial impacts from cuts to state vocational training budgets. She told the committee that skills funding cuts could have “consequential impact” on the quality of higher education at dual-sector universities and multi-sector private institutions. I reminded all CEOs and vice-chancellors that if they felt the impact … would threaten in any way their capacity to meet the threshold standards, they had a responsibility to notify TEQSA,  We are concerned about any … [Read more...]