The Dawkins Revolution
25 Years On
$43.99
- Paperback
355 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2013
Summary
John Dawkins was Australia’s most influential higher education minister. He turned colleges into universities, free education into HECS, elite education into mass education, a local focus into an international outlook, vice-chancellors into CEOs, and most academics into both teachers and researchers.The publication of this volume marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revolution that John Dawkins started, creating what became known as the Unified National System of higher education. While …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522864151 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522864155 |
| Author: | Simon Marginson, Gwilym Croucher, Andrew Norton, Julie Wells |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 355 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 538g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 156mm x 23mm |
About The Author
Simon Marginson
Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education at University College London in the UK. He is Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. From 2006-2013 he was Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He works primarily on higher education and globalization, and higher education and social inequality. His most recent book is The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr’s California Idea of Higher Education (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2016).
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