The Government is strongly committed to ensuring that the growth in university enrolments is underpinned by a focus on quality. Advancing Quality in Higher Education outlines the Government’s $1.3 billion commitment to assuring and strengthening the quality of teaching and learning in higher education.

The Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA) was established to provide the quality assurance to underpin a growing and sustainable higher education sector. TEQSA will carry out its regulatory activities from January 2012.

Universities will be rewarded for delivering outcomes for students through the Performance Funding arrangements: Facilitation Funding - over four years for agreement on strategies for achieving the university's teaching and learning mission and agreement to Reward Funding performance targets

Reward Funding - over four years for universities that meet their agreed performance targets relating to national quality, participation and attainment objectives.

Each university's performance against the indicators to be used for performance funding will be published on a public government website from 2013 onwards.

Government will promote excellence in university teaching through Structural Adjustment Fund (SAF) and special project and award funding to be managed by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).

The Government’s quality agenda will be further strengthened through a new package of initiatives, including developing, testing and implementing three new performance measurement tools – the University Experience Survey, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, and a composite Teaching Quality Indicator and reviewing the Australian Graduate Survey

5% of courses are wholly or largely delivered by e-learning.

In 95% of courses offered, the amount of institutionally supplied/guided e-learning is "significant"