| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Universities, like other industries, are challenged by disruptive market forces. Today there are nearly forty public universities in Australia. Some predict that by 2070 there may be only ten institutions left globally to deliver higher education. Relentless inventiveness and entrepreneurial agendas promise students a world of unbounded study options. In this powerful meditation on the need for institutional diversity, Glyn Davis argues that experimentation, innovation and resilience are the only way the public university will endure. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; 1 End of the line?; Cycles of innovation; Disrupting the public university; 2 The metropolitan university; Path dependency; A British setting; Origins of an Australian university; The path begins; The metropolitan idea; 3 Attempts to leave the path; The second wave of institutions; Diversity and a third wave of new universities; Academic culture; 4 A unified national system; Beyond the borders; The Dawkins moment; Assessing the changes; Convergence; Policy choices; 5 What next?; Diversity as prudence; Can public universities cope?; Policy design |
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The futureAcknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Australia.
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Universities and colleges. |
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Australia. |
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Education, Higher -- Australia.
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Education, Higher. |
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Australian.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Australian. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9780522871753 (electronic book) |
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0522871755 (electronic book) |
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