APS response to the Review of Australia’s Higher Education System Terms of Reference

The Australian Psychological Society welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the refinement of the Review of Australia’s Higher Education System Terms of Reference (the TORs). Higher education is an essential part of the training and qualification requirements for psychologists and it is critical to ensure the sustainability of Australia’s tertiary education system to equip the psychological workforce of the future. Furthermore, many of our members work in the Higher Education and research sectors and we also look forward to representing their views throughout the review.

Overall, we support the TORs as they stand and deem them sufficiently comprehensive to raise concerns and provide the input we plan to provide. However, we have identified a few opportunities to refine the following four of the TORs in our brief response: 

1. Meeting Australia’s knowledge and skills needs, now and in the future 
2. The connection between the vocational education and training and higher education systems
3. Quality and sustainability
4. Delivering new knowledge, innovation and capability

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