Raising the stakes / Peter Coaldrake & Lawrence Stedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coaldrake, Peter, author.

Stedman, Lawrence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Australia--Finance.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Australia--Management.

Education, Higher.

Educational change--Australia.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Saint Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2016.

Summary:

A comprehensive guide to the future of Australian higher education and the challenges it faces.In this fully revised new edition, Peter Coaldrake and Lawrence Stedman probe the state of Australian higher education and its future.

Contents:

Cover ; Author biographies; Title page; Dedications; Contents; 1. Tackling myths; 2. The role of universities in the twenty-first century; 3. Models of the Australian university; 4. Driving mass diversity; 5. Funding for performance: The case of teaching; 6. Being world class; 7. Weapons of mass instruction; 8. Picking up the tab: Cost, quality and sustainability; 9. The big deregulation gamble; 10. The scholarship of fools? Governance and management; 11. Facing the realities; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Index; Imprint Page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 14, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7022-5844-X

OCLC:

952933668