ABSTRACT
It is now 10 years since a national body for the enhancement of teaching and learning in Australian universities was first established. The Committee for the Advancement of University Teaching (CAUT) came into existence in August 1992 with a brief both to help raise the status of teaching and to encourage higher-quality teaching and learning throughout the system. The creation of CAUT followed hard on the heels of a period of extensive restructuring in Australian higher education, a process that began in 1987 and extended into the early 1990s, leading in effect to the dismantling of the binary system. The formerly separate university and college sectors were combined, resulting in a quite different higher education landscape. In some cases former colleges of advanced education or institutes of technology became universities, either singly or by amalgamation, and in some cases former colleges were amalgamated with already established universities.
