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Gregory Michael McCarthy, Emeritus Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia

The Universities Accord draft contains 'spiky' ideas, but puts a question mark over the spikiest one of all

Universities Accord Jason Clare Australia Education International Students

When he released the Universities Accord interim report last week, Education Minister Jason Clare drew attention to the echidna on the front cover.

As he explained, he had asked the review team to be bold.

To offer up a few big spiky ideas. They took me at my word, hence the echidna on the front page.

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