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