My current job is professor of higher education policy in the Monash Business School at Monash University. I am based at the Caulfield campus.

Until December 2024 I was professor in the practice of higher education policy at POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research (formerly the Centre for Social Research and Methods) at the Australian National University.

I have worked in higher education policy since 1997, when I started as an adviser to the then minister, Dr David Kemp.

Since then I have worked for two think-tanks (the Grattan Institute and the Centre for Independent Studies) and three University of Melbourne vice-chancellors, starting with the late Alan Gilbert, continuing with Kwong Lee Dow, and finishing with Glyn Davis.

I keep a link to the University of Melbourne as an honorary fellow in its Centre for the Study of Higher Education.

I was a member of the 2013-14 government review of the demand driven system for funding higher education and the 2016-17 expert panel advising on higher education reform. In 2023 I was on the ministerial reference group for the Universities Accord policy review (many subsequent blog posts explain why I disagree with its recommendations).

My Grattan Institute higher education reports can be found here.

This is my third blog, starting with Catallaxy in 2003, moving to a solo blog in 2006, and at this blog from August 2011 to focus on higher education issues (I was forced by ‘.net.au’ regulations to give up the original url, any content on it is not authorised by me). I also review mostly non-higher education books on the Goodreads site.

For regular updates on higher education events and data releases follow me on X/Twitter at @andrewjnorton. You can also follow me at bsky or Substack.

You can contact me at andrew.norton@monash.edu