A 20-year horizon on higher education will be very different from today, says Brian Schmidt, who revealed his role behind Christopher Pyne’s “fixer” moment.
Private, for-profit colleges will increasingly take on the task of educating new generations of professionals as research-intensive universities struggle under the burden of unsustainable cost structures and teaching models, says Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt.
“There is a mismatch between the teaching needs of the country and its research reality,” said Professor Schmidt,In Australia, to be called a university, teaching institutions must conduct research in at least three disciplines. The underpinning assumption was that research informs the teaching that students get but, for a large part, this was not the reality – nor should it be, he said.
“A lot of the new capacity for education will be research-free, and private providers could be very important in delivering this new capacity.” The tale behind that memorable appearance is complicated but involves then-senator Nick Xenophon, who asked Professor Schmidt to speak to Liberal-turned-independent senator Cory Bernardi about Mr Pyne’s threats to block funding for research infrastructure if he did not get his attempts to deregulate university fees moved forward.
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