Current policy and issues relating to higher education include assuring quality, learning and teaching, rationalising responsibility for higher education, and reforms through the Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future package.
Current
policy and issues relating to research include research quality, national research priorities, commercialisation, the infrastructure of national collaborative research, and the Backing Australia's Abillity package.
Current policy and issues relating to international education include additional promotion and presence in overseas markets, quality assurance in onshore and offshore higher education, scholarships for high achieving students, international centres for excellence, a national centre for language training and the annual registration charge.
The provision of education and training services to overseas students in Australia is regulated by the Department of Education, Science and Training through the Education Services for Overseas Students Act (ESOS) and associated legislation.
Current
policy and issues relating to science and innovation include international science linkages, the national research priorities, radioactive waste management, marine science, the framework for research quality, science and innovation awareness and analysis, commercialisation and the Backing Australia's Ability package.