The head of a new "system steward" for higher education wants to put an end to the cycle of boom and bust in Australian universities.
It's a cycle Canberra's universities know all too well with hundreds of jobs shed at the University of Canberra and the Australian National Universities in recent years.
Chief commissioner of the newly created Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) Professor Barney Glover hopes that he can steer the sector into a new era of stability.
