Universities told to raise bar for teachers - The Australian

UNIVERSITIES relying on training teachers for income should "put the national interest first" by cutting enrolments of poor-quality students and closing courses.

But the call for higher standards by Brian Caldwell, a former dean of education at the universities of Melbourne and Tasmania, and a leading schooling consultant to government, is undermined by Canberra's open-access policy, which funds a place for every Australian any university will accept.