A History of the Modern Australian University
A History of the Modern University
$31.50
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2014
Summary
In 1857 all of the Arts students at the University of Sydney could fit into a single photograph. Now there are more than one million university students in Australia. After World War II, Australian universities became less elite but more important, growing from six small institutions educating less than 0.2 per cent of the population to a system enrolling over a quarter of high school graduates. And yet, universities today are plagued with ingrained problems. More than 50 per cent of the c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742234120 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1742234127 |
| Author: | Hannah Forsyth |
| Publisher: | UNSW Press |
| Imprint: | UNSW Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 153mm x 235mm |
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Hannah Forsyth
Hannah Forsyth is a historian of modern Australia and an educator at the Australian Catholic University. She is the author of New Year’s Eve in Sydney: A History of Urban Carnival.
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