We’re expanding the student voices we engage, beyond elected student representatives. Students currently enrolled with an Australian higher education provider are encouraged to express their interest in joining TEQSA’s first Student Advisory Panel.

More information about the panel’s purpose and mission, including the terms of reference, are available at teqsa.gov.au/studentpanel.

Student Advisory Panel members will be appointed for a one-year term and invited to express interest in extending their term for a second year at the conclusion of the first year. Panel members will meet 4 times a year (both online and in person) and will be paid an honorarium for their time.

The Expression of Interest (EOI) is open until Thursday 30 April 2026. Submitting an EOI is free and can be done online.

TEQSA strongly encourages students with diverse backgrounds, diverse experiences and from a range of higher education institutions to express interest in becoming panel members, including those who identify with one or more of these perspectives:

• students from regional and remote areas, or who are using a University Study Hub to undertake their studies
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
• international students
• first in family students
• students with lived experience of disability, mental health and/or neurodivergence
• LGBTQI+ students
• students over the age of 21 or students who have returned to study after a break of 7 years or more
• part-time students
• students undertaking coursework or research.

For all other information about the EOI process, including descriptions of the panel roles and how to express interest in becoming a member, visit elliottgray.com.au/TEQSA.

TEQSA’s centralised Enquiries Management team have marked a year of delivering accessible, responsive and high-quality provider support. On 1 April 2025, the team commenced as the first point of contact for all provider enquiries. TEQSA implemented this approach based on sector feedback to enhance business continuity and give greater consistency and support for providers.

Since commencing, the Enquiries Management team has seen increases in stakeholder enquiries and engagement, and responded to more than 1,300 enquiries from providers in all categories.  

Enquiries have included updating contact details, questions about CRICOS applications, seeking guidance on notifying changes (for example, to governance structures or courses), and data and risk reporting, to name just a few.

The centralised approach has delivered expected efficiencies in its first 12 months, allowing TEQSA to identify trends and themes in common enquiries. This has helped the agency to build a streamlined knowledge of what regulatory issues are impacting providers and the broader sector, and allows us to better respond with communications and other supporting documents, where needed.

The Enquiries Management team is available to help, so if you have an enquiry please reach out:

• send an email to providerenquiries@teqsa.gov.au
• or phone us on 1300 739 585. 

On 27 April 2026, TEQSA accepted a voluntary undertaking from the Australian National University (ANU) regarding a process for recruiting the next Chancellor.

The next Chancellor will have a key role in setting strategic direction and culture for the ANU for the coming years. It is important that selection for this pivotal leadership role is progressed in a timely way, given the term of the current Chancellor ends in December 2026.

In accordance with the requirements of the Australian National University Act 1991, the decision to appoint the new Chancellor will be made by the Council. A majority independent selection panel will manage the recruitment and selection process and recommend the strongest candidate to Council. The voluntary undertaking sets out ways the ANU community will help to inform the selection panel’s understanding about the experience and attributes needed in the next Chancellor.

While TEQSA’s compliance assessment of ANU is ongoing, we are satisfied that the terms of the undertaking will ensure the selection process has the integrity and independence required to have the trust and confidence of the ANU community and other stakeholders.

Details of the voluntary undertaking can be found here: TEQSA National Register ANU Regulatory Decisions

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On 27 April 2026, TEQSA accepted a voluntary undertaking from the Australian National University (ANU) for a process to recruit the next Chancellor.

The selection panel will be chaired by Emeritus Professor Peter Coaldrake, a former Chief Commissioner of TEQSA and Vice Chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology for 14 years. Professor Coaldrake has extensive governance, strategic and operational knowledge of the university sector. In 2022 Professor Coaldrake completed a major review of culture and accountability of the Queensland public sector.

Professor Coaldrake will not be making public or media statements in relation to the selection panel at this time.

Details of the selection process will be published in coming weeks, on a dedicated ANU webpage.