TY - BOOK AU - Macintyre,Stuart AU - Brett,André AU - Croucher,Gwilym TI - No End of a Lesson: Australia's Unified National System of Higher Education SN - 9780522871913 AV - LA2108 .M335 2017 U1 - 378.94 PY - 2017/// CY - Melbourne PB - Melbourne University Publishing KW - Higher education and state-Australia KW - Universities and colleges-Australia-History KW - Education, Higher-Australia-History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Dawkins Takes Charge, 1987 -- 2 The Winds of Change -- The Predicament of Higher Education -- Australia Reconstructed -- He Who Pays the Piper -- The Search for Solutions -- Changes Abroad -- 3 How to Proceed? -- Higher Education as a Market -- Rethinking the Role of the State -- The Collapse of the Policy Community -- Few Friends -- 4 A Unified National System -- Abolition of CTEC -- A Statement of Intent -- The Green Paper -- User Pays -- Joining the Unified National System -- The New Model of Higher Education -- 5 Amalgamations -- The Process -- The Pattern -- Success and Failure in Two Regional Amalgamations -- Success and Failure in Four Metropolitan Amalgamations -- How Unified was the National System? -- 6 Compliance -- Equity and Access -- Credit Transfer and the Competency Movement -- Staff Management -- Governing Bodies and University Management -- Sticks and Carrots -- 7 Finance -- Funding Expansion -- The Allocation of Funds -- Performance-Based Funding-and Three Years of Rewards for Quality -- International Fees -- Domestic Fees -- A Higher Education Market? -- 8 Teaching -- Changes in Provision -- Open Learning -- Teaching the Teacher -- The Student Experience -- 9 Research -- Setting Directions -- Concentration and Selectivity -- Competition and Control -- Research Training -- Innovation, Commercialisation and Public Research -- 10 The University Changed -- Growth -- Convergence and Differentiation -- The University Brand -- Management -- Managers and Managed -- Conclusion -- Lament for the Lost University -- The Durability of the Unified National System -- A Final Reckoning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5751753 ER -