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Set your institution against the peers you choose.
The same published measure, over time, for you and each peer. The CHESS Ranking reads 37 universities on ten dimensions.
The Executive Edition
Global context. Institutional detail.
Bring market intelligence, institutional benchmarking and scenario modelling into the same platform. Explore the evidence behind a policy, investment or strategic choice, then prepare the analysis for your team to review.
For universities, research organisations, government and education partners.
On application. An institutional licence, agreed with CoreBridge Intelligence.
How the licence worksThe film
The Executive Edition, in one minute.
Narrated by Rosie, made from the platform’s own screens.
Four pieces of work, connected: compare, investigate, model, prepare.
Investigate
Follow demand, markets and policy.
Courses and admissions, 81 source markets, jobs and skills by region, and the Intergenerational Report 2026, read for tertiary education.
Model
Test the implications before they reach your accounts.
The Sector Scenario Lab (beta) applies an assumption you set, such as fewer international students, to each university’s published accounts and shows the result year by year. It illustrates the assumption; it is not a forecast.
Prepare
Draft the briefing for your team to review.
A board paper that opens in Word (beta), or a Market Intelligence deck in PowerPoint. Each figure carries its source and year.
Follow one question through the evidence.
A board paper the Edition wrote on 25 September 2026 for Eastbridge University, a fictional name standing in for a real Australian university. The figures are that university’s published data; only the name is changed.
- The question“Where does Eastbridge stand, and what should the Council watch?” typed into the board paper builder.
- The evidenceThe publisher’s student and finance collections, each named beside its figure.
- The comparisonFour named peers chosen on the page, and the rank among all 37 universities that report the measure.
- The assumptionsNone: this paper is for noting. A question about a change, such as fewer international students, goes to the Sector Scenario Lab, where you set the assumption yourself.
- The draftA council-form paper marked “unreviewed draft”, with a disclaimer, that opens in Word for your team to check and edit.
A sample. Figures are the publisher’s latest and may since have been revised. The paper is a draft for review, not advice.
Six groups of capability, one platform.
Open a group to see what it holds. Depth differs by provider type and by country, and beta marks a tool still being built out.
Markets and systemsCountries, student markets, policy, employment demand and sector composition.
- Source markets, each with its own page, with visa and demand trends
- Courses, admissions and fees across Australia
- Jobs and Skills Australia vacancies and projections, region by region
- The policy register, electorates and the Intergenerational Report 2026
- The United Kingdom and New Zealand systems in full, in the free dashboards
Institutions and peersOrganisational profiles, performance, benchmarking and international comparisons.
- Every Australian university in depth, with TAFEs and medical research institutes beside them
- Rank and compare on the same published measure and year
- The CHESS Ranking: 37 universities on ten dimensions
- Peers in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Europe and Türkiye
Research and partnershipsFunding, research strengths, experts, industry relationships and commercialisation.
- ARC, NHMRC and MRFF grants, one record each
- Research topics, funders and industry partners on one map
- Horizon Europe funding
- Commercialisation income read against research spend, with partnerships and research translation where the source reports them
Finance and scenariosFinancial modelling, stress tests and sector scenarios from published accounts.
- Each university’s published accounts, year by year
- The CFO model (beta): a five-year financial scenario with the driver that moves it most
- The Sector Scenario Lab (beta): one assumption applied to every university’s accounts
- Financial stress tests
Governance and strategyRisk, audit findings, organisational structures and strategic priorities.
- Risk and resilience measures
- Audit findings
- ATEC priorities and compacts
- Enterprise agreements read into pay scales, and the staff profile
Papers and briefingsBoard papers, market briefings and editable exports.
- A board paper in council form that opens in Word (beta)
- A Market Intelligence deck that opens in PowerPoint
- Every figure carries its source and reporting year; each file carries a disclaimer and is a draft for review
- Rosie, your virtual Chief Business Strategist, on every page
Start with the questions you need to answer.
Examine institutional position, strategic choices and financial resilience.
- Your position against the peers you choose, and the CHESS Ranking.
- Board papers in council form that open in Word (beta).
- ATEC priorities and compacts.
- Governance, audit findings and risk.
Every Australian university, with 123 pages and 1,122 measures each.
How comparison worksCompare financial performance and test the implications of changing assumptions.
- Each university’s published accounts, year by year.
- The CFO model (beta): a five-year financial scenario from published accounts.
- The financial stress test (beta).
- The Sector Scenario Lab (beta): one assumption applied to every university.
A scenario illustrates its assumptions. It is not a forecast.
How scenarios workConnect program and faculty performance with student and employment demand.
- Thirteen faculty pages for each university.
- Courses, admissions and published fees.
- Completions and graduate outcomes.
- Jobs and Skills Australia demand by field.
Faculty and field pages read Australian universities today.
What you can investigateExamine research strengths, funding patterns and prospective partnerships.
- 49,000+ ARC, NHMRC and MRFF grants, searchable.
- Research topics, funders and 11,200 industry partners on one map.
- Commercialisation income against research spend.
- Horizon Europe funding.
Partner records come from ARC projects, 2002 to 2026.
What you can investigateCompare systems and institutions, investigate sector pressures and explore policy scenarios.
- Australian universities compared on published measures, each shown with its reporting year.
- Electorates, the policy register and the Intergenerational Report 2026.
- The Sector Scenario Lab (beta), which applies a stated assumption to each university’s published accounts.
Descriptive comparisons. A scenario shows the effect of its assumptions, not the effect of a policy or law.
How scenarios workExamine skills demand, regional context and the provider measures available.
- Every public TAFE on the verified register, beside the universities.
- TAFE commencements.
- Jobs and skills, region by region.
- The TAFE inside each dual-sector university.
TAFE coverage is narrower than university coverage today.
How comparison worksInvestigate institutions, course portfolios and student markets.
- 81 source markets, each with its own page.
- Courses and fees across Australia.
- Industry partners and research fields on one map.
Public evidence is an input to commercial work. It does not show recruitment costs, conversion or contract terms.
What you can investigate
Depth differs by provider type and by country. Each panel says what the Edition holds for that audience today.
Six short films, one platform.
Each about a minute long, narrated by Rosie and made from the platform’s own screens.
On your phone
The Edition works on a phone.
Board papers, the CHESS Ranking and Rosie all open on a phone. Every figure and source is the same as on the desktop.
Get the highlights.
The front page. Your university’s numbers, ranked against the whole sector, the moment you sign in.
Market Intelligence. Ten questions a chair asks, each answered on its own slide.
The CHESS Ranking. Universities ranked on finance, mission and community.
The research map. Fields, funders and industry partners, connected on one page.
Rosie. Your virtual Chief Business Strategist, on every page.
Board papers
Board papers in council form, written from published figures.
Type the question your Council is asking. The Edition writes a one or two page paper in council form, compares you with your nearest peers and names every source. It opens in Word for you to check and edit.
Scenarios
Test a funding or enrolment shock before it reaches your accounts.
You set the change: fewer students from one country, a visa rule, a funding freeze or a pay rise. The Sector Scenario Lab and the CFO model apply it to each university’s published accounts over the next five years. Change the assumptions to explore their modelled effects. Scenario results illustrate those assumptions; they are not forecasts or statements of CoreBridge’s preferred policy. The base year and the inputs are shown on the page.
1,743organisations, with TAFEs, medical research institutes and CSIRO
49k+ARC, NHMRC and MRFF grants, one record each
378enterprise agreements, read into pay scales
Rosie
Meet Rosie, your virtual Chief Business Strategist.
Rosie works like a strategist at your side. Talk a question through, test an idea before the meeting, or think aloud about what a trend could mean for your institution. Type to her on any page, or talk to her on video.
Rosie is AI and can make mistakes.
Think it through, on any page. Ask what a page could mean for your plans, and Rosie works through it with you.
Ready for the room. Rehearse the hard question before the meeting, or ask how your peers might read the same trend.
What else sits inside the Edition.
Free dashboardsStart free.
Board papersCouncil form, in Word.
Knowledge MapInstitutions and student flows, on one map.
Medical research institutesInstitutes beside the universities.
Future demandThe Intergenerational Report 2026.
Jobs and skillsJobs by region.
CoursesCourses and admissions across Australia.
CommercialisationResearch that earns.
FinanceThe CFO model.
StrategyYour ATEC compact.
PeoplePay and conditions.
EstatesCampuses and what each one teaches.
EuropeHorizon Europe funding.
ScenariosThe Sector Scenario Lab.
EquityEquity and access.
RiskRisk and resilience.
United KingdomEvery UK provider, ranked.
New ZealandAll eight universities, side by side.
United StatesThe US sector, R1 against R2.
CanadaCanada’s universities over time.
Europe and TürkiyeOn the OECD’s harmonised ratios.
Competitor systemsSeven systems on one chart.
Source markets81 markets, each with its own page.
The worldThe whole sector on one map.
Trends and policyWhere the sector is heading.
AttainmentWho holds a degree, and where.
PhilanthropyGifts and bequests, year by year.
Student experienceCompletion, attrition and experience.
Indigenous leadershipFirst Nations, as a portfolio of its own.
InternationalInternational students and income.
SustainabilityWhat each university consumes and emits.
Safety and wellbeingSerious claims and time lost.
Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, in full, with no sign-in.
Purpose, recommendation, key points and the evidence, against your nearest peers.
Institutions, source markets and research partners, with the flows between them.
Grants, money and people for 39 institutes reporting in 2025.
Treasury’s population and workforce outlook, read for tertiary education.
Jobs and Skills Australia vacancies and projections, region by region.
Starters by field, ATAR and the courses each university offers.
Commercialisation income against research spend, for every university that reports it.
A five-year financial scenario from your published accounts, with the driver that moves it most.
The compact and the national priorities, set against your own figures.
Enterprise agreements read into pay scales, with staff costs against peers.
Every campus, its courses and the estate measures behind it.
Where Australian universities win Horizon Europe grants, and with whom.
Move one setting and see the next five years for every university.
Each group’s share of students, against the Accord’s 2035 targets.
Liquidity, insurance and the measures a risk committee watches.
Rank any measure across 157 providers, follow its trend, or set two head to head.
Rank and compare New Zealand’s universities on any measure, against the system median.
279 US institutions, with the medians for each research class.
International share, research council awards and the finances of 89 Canadian institutions.
901 European and 201 Turkish institutions, with system ratios from the OECD.
Set your university beside peers in Australia, the UK, New Zealand, the US, Canada and Europe.
Every country that sends students to Australia, with its trend over time.
Student flows between countries, on one map you can search and open.
Government spending, costs and revenue, in cash and in real terms.
Degree attainment and adult learning, by state and by remoteness.
Donations against the sector and Go8 medians, with the division’s own measures.
Where your university ranks, and how it has moved against its peers.
Students, staff and outcomes for First Nations people, against the sector.
Load, fee income and the domestic and international mix, over ten years.
Scope 1 and 2 emissions per student, for universities above the NGER threshold.
Workers’ compensation claims and workforce measures, against the sector.
Each figure shows where it came from and how it was made.
Each number carries its publisher and its reporting year. Figures a publisher reported are kept apart from figures CoreBridge calculated and results a model produced, and each is labelled. Thresholds and bands are CoreBridge’s own settings, and say so.
National collections are not all defined the same way. Where definitions differ between systems, the page says so. Published figures can be revised after the Edition reads them.
Because it is all public data, the whole Edition is transparent. Every reader sees the same figures from the same sources, so your team can benchmark against publishers it already trusts.
Your seat stays secure. There is no password to steal. We hold only what a seat needs to work: your work email, your name and your sign-in record. None of your institution’s own data is ever held.
The Edition runs on Cloudflare, with a 100% uptime guarantee, unmetered DDoS protection, and PCI DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
- Publisher named
- Reporting year stated
- Reported, calculated and modelled kept apart
- All public data, the same for every reader
- No passwords held
- 100% uptime guaranteed by Cloudflare
The Executive Edition adds depth, other systems and the tools to prepare a briefing.
Free dashboards
Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
Free. No sign-in.
Executive Edition
More depth, other systems and the tools to prepare a briefing.
On application.
| Feature | Free dashboards | Executive Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Your university in depth | 10 views | 123 pages |
| Australian measures behind them | 172 | 1,122 |
| Other systems | Australia, the UK and New Zealand only | Peer comparisons with 1,470 institutions in the US, Canada, Europe and Türkiye |
| TAFEs, medical research institutes and CSIRO | Not included | 22 TAFEs, 44 institutes and CSIRO |
| The CHESS Ranking | Not included | Ten dimensions |
| The CFO model | Not included | A five-year financial scenario from your published accounts (beta) |
| Sector Scenario Lab | Not included | One assumption applied to every university’s published accounts (beta) |
| Rosie, your virtual Chief Business Strategist | Not included | Included (beta) |
| Board paper in Word, Market Intelligence deck in PowerPoint | Not included | Both included; the board paper is in beta |
| Access | Anyone, no sign-in | An institutional licence, agreed with CoreBridge Intelligence |
Compare every feature
| Feature | Free dashboards | Executive Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Your university | ||
| Your university in depth | 10 views | 123 pages |
| Australian measures behind them | 172 | 1,122 |
| Every field you teach | Not included | 13 faculty pages |
| Campuses, courses and fees | Campus catchments only | 417 campuses, 11,325 courses, published fees |
| Governance, audit findings and controlled entities | Not included | Included |
| Where you stand | ||
| Your closest peers | Inside your own system | Across borders |
| The CHESS Ranking | Not included | Ten dimensions |
| Electorates, the policy register and the Intergenerational Report | Not included | Included |
| ATEC priorities and compacts | A summary (beta) | In full |
| The world | ||
| Australian and New Zealand universities | Included | Included |
| UK universities | 164 measures | 471 measures, with the UK’s own collections beside them |
| The US sector | Not included | 279 institutions |
| Canada | Not included | 89 institutions |
| Europe | Not included | 901 institutions |
| Türkiye | Not included | 201 institutions |
| TAFEs, medical research institutes and CSIRO | Not included | 22 TAFEs, 44 institutes and CSIRO |
| International source markets | National trends | 81 market pages |
| Money, people and risk | ||
| The CFO model | Not included | A five-year financial scenario from your published accounts (beta) |
| Financial stress test | Not included | In beta |
| Sector Scenario Lab | Not included | One assumption applied to every university’s published accounts (beta) |
| Enterprise agreements and pay | Not included | 378 agreements, 47,031 pay rates (beta) |
| Philanthropy | Audited donations | Five national charity registers |
| Research and partners | ||
| Grant search | Funding totals only | 49,000+ grants, searchable |
| Named partners and research experts | Not included | 11,200 partners |
| Work done for you | ||
| Rosie, your virtual Chief Business Strategist | Not included | Included (beta) |
| A board paper that opens in Word | Not included | In beta |
| A Market Intelligence deck in PowerPoint | Not included | Included |
| The licence | ||
| Access | Anyone, no sign-in | An institutional licence, agreed with CoreBridge Intelligence |
| Price | Free | On application |
Counts are for an Australian university, as the product holds them today. (beta) marks a tool still in beta.
One institutional licence.
- Users. Named users across your executive and governing body, agreed with CoreBridge Intelligence when the licence is set up. Access is held by the institution and follows the seat, so a seat can pass to a successor.
- Price. On application. Request a demonstration and Chris Roberts, Strategic Partnerships, will reply.
- Internal data. None is needed. The Edition holds no organisation’s internal or confidential information.
International evidence now. Full country editions by date.
The Edition already holds peers in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Europe and Türkiye, and the international student source markets. A full country edition reads each of that country’s institutions at the depth Australia has today. Australia is open now; the United Kingdom follows at the end of 2026; Canada, New Zealand and the United States in 2027.
- Open nowAustralia, full edition
- End of 2026United Kingdom, full edition
- 2027Canada, New Zealand and the United States, full editions
Questions teams ask before they choose.
What does the Executive Edition add to the free dashboards?
Depth, breadth and tools. The Edition reads every Australian university in far greater depth than the free dashboards, and adds peers in other systems, TAFEs and medical research institutes, the CHESS Ranking, scenario modelling, Rosie, and papers and briefings you can edit. The table above lists each difference, and the sample outputs on this page show what the tools produce.
Which institutions, systems and years are covered?
Every Australian university in depth, 22 TAFEs, 44 medical research institutes and CSIRO, and peers in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Europe and Türkiye. Each chart states the years it covers.
What can government, TAFEs and education partners use today?
Each has its own section above, with what the Edition holds for it now. TAFE coverage is narrower than university coverage.
How current is each collection?
Each chart names its source and reporting year. Most collections are published once a year, so the latest figure is the publisher’s latest release.
How are comparisons made?
You and your peers are set side by side on the same published measure and year. Where two systems define a measure differently, the page says so.
How do scenarios differ from forecasts?
A scenario applies assumptions you set to published accounts. It illustrates those assumptions. It is not a forecast, and not a statement of CoreBridge’s preferred policy.
Can we edit and export the outputs?
Yes. The board paper (beta) opens in Word and the Market Intelligence deck in PowerPoint. Each file carries a disclaimer and is a draft for your team to review.
What is included in the institutional licence?
Named users across your executive and governing body, agreed with CoreBridge Intelligence when the licence is set up. Access follows the seat, so it can pass to a successor. Onboarding and support are part of the licence discussion. The price is on application.
Can we inspect other institutions at the same depth as our own?
Yes. Every Australian university is read at the same depth, on the same published measures. TAFEs, medical research institutes and peers abroad are read at the depth their own collections allow, and the Coverage page shows what each holds.
Which international collections are available now?
The United Kingdom (157 universities) and New Zealand (eight) in full, as free dashboards and inside the Edition. Peers in the United States (279 R1 and R2 universities), Canada (89), Europe (901 universities in 36 countries) and Türkiye (201). Eighty-one international student source markets. OECD and World Bank measures by country. Full editions for the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States follow the dates on this page.
What differs between countries?
Each system publishes on its own definitions and reporting years. Within a system the Edition compares on the same measure and year. Across systems it sets side by side only the measures the collections define closely enough to read in one row, and the page names what still differs.
Can scenarios be saved and revisited?
Yes, on the device you used. The financial model and the CFO model save runs in your browser, the CFO model up to thirty, and can compare saved runs. The Sector Scenario Lab keeps your settings. Each gives a link that reopens the same run for a colleague. Saved runs are not held on CoreBridge’s servers.
How are results referenced?
Each figure carries its publisher and reporting year on the page, and every exported paper, deck and table carries the same references with a disclaimer. Reported figures are kept apart from figures CoreBridge calculated and results a model produced.
What can be exported?
Board and executive papers open in Word. The Market Intelligence deck and the stress-test deck open in PowerPoint. Most charts copy as CSV and save as a dated PNG. The University report prints to PDF.
Which capabilities are in beta?
The board paper, the CFO model, the financial stress test, the Sector Scenario Lab, Rosie, and enterprise agreements and pay rates. Each carries a beta mark on its page.
What happens when a source revises its figures?
Each figure is shown as the publisher had it when the Edition last read that collection, with the reporting year beside it. Publishers revise, so a later release can change a figure. When the Edition incorporates the new release the page shows the new figure and names the release. A separate log of revised figures is not yet published.
What do you hold about me, and where does my work go?
Your work email, name and role, your organisation, when you sign in and which pages you open. Scenarios you save stay in your own browser. The Edition holds no organisation’s internal or confidential information.
Does use require internal institutional data?
No. The Edition works from published sources only and holds no organisation’s internal or confidential information.
How can our team evaluate the product?
Reach out to Chris Roberts, Strategic Partnerships, CoreBridge Intelligence, at [email protected], and request a demonstration built around a question from your next meeting.
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