Life after Dawkins : the University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education 1988-96 / Andre Brett, Gwilym Croucher and Stuart Macintyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brett, André, author.

Croucher, Gwilym, author.

Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-2021, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Higher education and state--Australia.

Higher education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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 ways of 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 traces its impact on the balance between the University of Melbourne's academic miss on and external expectations, and how it adjusted to neutralise the impact of the change and restore the balance. At Melbourne, the Dawkins revolution changed little in the way it understood itself and conducted its affairs, but changed everything.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Tables

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The steady state

2 'Planning for Change'

3 Melbourne's response to the Green Paper

4 The State Government

5 Joining the Unified National System

6 Amalgamations

7 Implementing the conditions of membership

8 Research

9 Management

10 HECS and fees

11 Finances

12 Outcomes

Conclusion

Appendix: Summary tables

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522869750

0522869750