Life After Dawkins: The University Of Melbourne In The Unified National System Of Higher Education

by Stuart Macintyre

2020-12-29 09:09:37

The reconstruction of higher education in Australia through the creation of the Unified National System of Higher Education at the end of the 1980s by John Dawkins is commonly seen as a watershed. It brought new waysof funding, directing and organisi... Read more
The reconstruction of higher education in Australia through the creation of the Unified National System of Higher Education at the end of the 1980s by John Dawkins is commonly seen as a watershed. It brought new waysof funding, directing and organising universities, expanding their size, reorienting their activities and setting in train a far-reaching transformation of the academic enterprise. This volume examines how the University of Melbourne both adapted to and resisted the Unified National System, how it took advantage of the opportunities for growth while affirming its academic mission. While the Dawkins revolution changed little in the way that Melbourne understood itself and conducted its affairs, it changed everything. Less

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File size8.27 X 5.39 X 0.4 in
Print pages186
PublisherMelbourne University Publishing
Publication date April 18, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780522869736
Stuart Macintyre is Professor Emeritus of the University of Melbourne and has written extensively on Australia's political and social history, as well as its intellectual traditions. His most recent b...

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