Life After Dawkins: The University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education

by Andre Brett, Stuart Macintyre, Gwilym Croucher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522869742
• ISBN13: 9780522869743
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Mup Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"