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

Authors

Andre Brett, University of MelbourneFollow
Gwilym Croucher, University of Melbourne
Stuart Macintyre, University of Melbourne

RIS ID

129158

Publication Details

Brett, A., Croucher, G. & Macintyre, S. (2016). Life After Dawkins University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education. New Zealand: MU Publishing.

Abstract

The reconstruction of higher education in Australia through the creation of the Unified National System at the end of the 1980s is commonly seen as a watershed, bringing 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.