The Rise of the Australian Comprehensive University
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Higher Education Research & Development
- Vol. 9 (1) , 7-20
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0729436900090102
Abstract
Australia is now moving into a unitary system of higher education following the current merger of the advanced education sector with the universities. As Australia will be without a non‐university higher education alternative, the resultant institutions are appropriately termed comprehensive universities. This article examines government policies which resulted in this extensive restructuring and discusses inadequacies in the conceptualisation of the post‐Dawkins university. Responses to the prospect of nationwide amalgamations and the ways in which they are being carried out are also discussed. Reference is made to the main challenges which will confront the new comprehensive universities. Some have called the new changes in Australian higher education “a revolution”, a characterisation which is not altogether hyperbolic.Keywords
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