TEQSA team member's Public Service Medal
Respected former TEQSA colleague, Anne McFall, has been awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) in the Australia Day Honours List for her outstanding public service to Australian higher education.
Recently retired, Anne is one of only 100 government employees to be recognised in 2025 for outstanding public service, in these annual awards. Deservedly, her honour focuses on her exemplary guidance to the sector in the regulation of the Higher Education Standards Framework 2021 (Threshold Standards), and her contributions to policy development and design that have achieved significant efficiencies in TEQSA’s management of provider applications.
To summarise the official description of her honour:
“Anne McFall has consistently delivered outstanding service to support Australia’s higher education sector in areas such as compliance and investigations, customer service, stakeholder management, provider registrations / re-registrations and course accreditations / reaccreditations assessments, and contributions to policy development and projects. Her exemplary leadership was noted in the regulating of the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) (2011/2015/2021), which sets the standards that a provider must meet and continue to meet to be registered to operate as a higher education provider in Australia.
“The design processes and reporting arrangements led to significant efficiencies in the management of applications and successful maintenance of the integrity of entry to Australia’s higher education sector under the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Act 2011 (TEQSA).
“Ms McFall’s leadership skills, her consultative and inclusive management style has resulted in recognition and respect throughout the sector as a person with extensive experience and knowledge of regulation within higher education. She has assumed a leadership role to guide and support staff across TEQSA’s regulatory operations groups, where she worked across multiple roles to provide a supportive and knowledgeable team environment.
"(Her) leadership skills, her consultative and inclusive management style has resulted in recognition and respect throughout the sector as a person with extensive experience and knowledge of regulation within higher education... (she) consistently exhibits excellence in her leadership and has done so while modelling TEQSA’s values of trust, respect, accountability and collaboration.”