If tertiary education administrators were looking for a pragmatic rationale to improve their internal
management, it was provided recently by the Minister for Education, Senator Susan Ryan. "We want to
see signs that universities are capable of responding and upgrading their efforts by doing hard, internal
things, taking hard, internal decisions, before we would be prepared to allocate them extra funds".
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