Building a Sustainable Future The Case for Change – Scale, Relevance and Responsiveness

• Significant growth in demand for education, meaning scale of educational institutions. • Increased funding from non-government sources with an increased expectation of relevance and utility. • Changing government and community expectations regarding the nature and role of tertiary education institutions raising expectations of relevance and efficiency. • Increased commercial activity of traditional tertiary education players and entry of private providers. • An accelerating rate of globalisation of tertiary education markets that will likely springboard off General Agreement on Tariffs of Trade/World Trade Organisation initiatives currently under deliberations and is already being shepherded through with the advent of regional ‘super’ markets such as NAFTA and the EU. • Increased national/regional economic and, community reliance on knowledge economies. • The emergence of global tertiary education consortia driving up scale and reach and the emergence of new brands. • The emergence of new models for the delivery of education, with their own economics, driven by technology effects, globalisation and commercialisation.