To celebrate the launch of the TEQSA 2025 Conference and the release of this year’s fantastic program, early bird tickets are available until 11:59pm on Friday 19 September (AEST).
This is your only opportunity to secure your attendance at a discounted price.
This year, we're delighted to welcome distinguished speakers including Liz Hughes, CEO of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, as our Master of Ceremonies, and our opening keynote speaker, Melinda Cilento, CEO for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia and Chair, Expert Council on University Governance.
On Tuesday 19 August 2025, at the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit, the Minister for Education announced upcoming consultation on TEQSA’s legislative framework.
A discussion paper will be released in the coming weeks. The consultation work will be led by the Department of Education. A comprehensive consultation process will ensure broad perspectives are heard from across the sector.
TEQSA will communicate more information when it is released in due course.
TEQSA is celebrating reaching 20,000 followers on LinkedIn.
Thank you to everyone who has followed our page, shared and reacted to our posts.
We are grateful for your support in helping us keep the sector informed about our regulatory work to protect student interests and uphold the reputation, quality and integrity of Australia's higher education.
We look forward to continuing to provide you with valuable updates and sector news.
TEQSA's 2025-29 Corporate Plan, which outlines TEQSA's priorities for the next four years, is now available.
The plan details our Advancing together: Delivering enhanced regulation and quality assurance for higher education strategy which commits to maturing our regulatory model, strengthening our data and analytics capabilities and developing our workforce.
TEQSA has appointed eminent former Public Service Commissioner, Lynelle Briggs AO, as the independent expert to support TEQSA’s compliance assessment into the Australian National University (ANU).
Ms Briggs has strong administration and governance experience, most recently co-chairing a review of critical shipping legislation for Australia's maritime industry in 2024 and 2025, leading the review of public sector board appointments in 2023 and as the Royal Commissioner on Aged Care Quality and Safety in 2018.
She became an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2013 for distinguished service to public administration, particularly through leadership in the development of public service performance and professionalism.
In her TEQSA role, Ms Briggs will be tasked with reviewing specific aspects of ANU’s governance systems and her work will have a targeted focus, including considering the university’s self-assurance report alongside interviews with ANU staff, students, executive and governing council members.
Ms Briggs will report back to TEQSA with expert recommendations, which will form one part of the broader scope of complex assessment work currently being undertaken by TEQSA.
More broadly, TEQSA will carefully consider other information sources, concerns and enquiries received to determine the outcome of its full compliance assessment into the ANU and the decisions that will be made in due course by TEQSA’s Commissioners.
As the national independent higher education regulator, TEQSA began looking into concerns about the ANU in October 2024 and opened a formal compliance assessment on 30 June 2025.
Ms Briggs’ scope of work as TEQSA’s independent expert will be guided by a Terms of Reference. She will not be making any public comment in her capacity as an independent expert and all media enquiries should be directed to TEQSA Communications.
TEQSA is proposing an updated version of the Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS) with adjustments to our fees and charges to take effect on 1 January 2026.
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI), while creating new possibilities for learning and teaching, has exacerbated existing assessment challenges within higher education. However, there is considerable expertise, based on evidence, theory and practice, about how to design assessment for a digital world, which includes artificial intelligence. AI is not new, after all, even if the current iterations of generative AI are. This document, constructed through expert collaboration, draws on this body of knowledge and outlines directions for the future of assessment. It seeks to provide guidance for the sector on ways assessment practices can take advantage of the opportunities, and manage the risks, of AI, specifically generative AI.
TEQSA has published a new resource, Enacting assessment reform in a time of artificial intelligence. This resource aims to help institutions address the risks generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) poses to learning assurance, while also supporting students to use these tools responsibly and ethically.
Developed by a panel of authors, and in collaboration with experts from across the sector, Enacting assessment reform in a time of artificial intelligence builds on the principles and propositions outlined in Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence, which TEQSA published in November 2023.
While Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence offered principles and propositions to guide institutions in developing an approach to gen AI and assessment, this new resource delivers examples of how these principles are being put into practice.
Thank you to the panel of authors who developed this resource on TEQSA’s behalf.
Gen AI knowledge hub