Education and Public Policy in Australia

by Simon Marginson

Book Overview

The gap between the demands placed on education in Australia and the resources allocated to it by government has increased dramatically in recent years. The education system is expected to absorb youth unemployment and play a key role in the modernisation of the economy, yet education spending as a proportion of GDP has declined. The notion of education as being important for its own sake and a key to equality in society seems to have been set aside,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521439639
• ISBN13: 9780521439633
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"