How well do you remember your uni days? Chances are, whatever picture that came to mind - the lecture theatres, campus life, the idea of a place built to protect independent thought - is a few steps removed from the more complicated reality.
These days, that picture competes with leadership scandals, ballooning student debt, a model that relies on international students and a casualised workforce running on fumes. Somewhere along the way, the sector started looking less like an institution and more like an industry.
Julie Hare has spent her career watching that transformation up close. Formerly the higher education editor at The Australian and the Australian Financial Review, she now writes The Hare Report, where she's turned her attention to governance failures at the top.
With AI now rewriting the rules of teaching and assessment, Julie's asking the uncomfortable question - can this system reform itself, or has it too far gone?
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