The Australian: Plan to link uni funds to targets
UNIVERSITY students could be made to sit a generic skills test to assess what value has been added by their tutors as part of Education Minister Julia Gillard’s plans to link university funding to performance targets from 2012.
Other performance indicators floated in a discussion paper released yesterday include reducing first-year drop-out rates, improving performance in student-satisfaction surveys, and increasing the number of poor and disadvantaged students at universities.