‎The Australian:
Expanding higher education through franchising deals between universities and TAFE colleges is a short-term fix rather than a long-term strategy.
Gareth Parry, professor of education at Sheffield University and an authority on relations between English universities and further education colleges, said the weakness of franchising was that it tended to subordinate the college to the university.
Professor Parry said the practice also carried the potential for distrust to emerge over how government teaching funding was split between the partners.
In the long term he believed it was better to leverage the college and TAFE sector’s ability to attract more diverse students by providing sustainable direct funding. More.
