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With contributions from several Asia-Pacific countries, this book
compares performance and productivity in higher education from the
perspective of institutional change. Using multiple methods and
datasets and including case studies from Australia, Cambodia,
China, Malaysia, India and Japan, the authors focus on shedding
light on the efficacy of institutional policies and reforms. The
worldwide Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education neared 40
per cent in 2020 due to the dramatic increase in enrolments in many
developing economies, especially in Asia. This significant increase
in the number of students in higher education brings great benefits
but requires major ongoing investment by governments around the
world. This growth has followed waves of internationalization and
marketization, and universities are undergoing substantial change
in their organization and character. The goal of many institutional
policies and reforms has been better performance and higher
productivity. Yet little is known about whether they have achieved
this aim. Students, government officials and university leaders all
have the right to ask whether the outcomes of higher education
justify the costs of running the system. Although increasing
attention has been paid to higher education institutions'
management and operation, the study of higher education performance
and productivity is still in its relative infancy compared to other
enterprises. Written for students and scholars interested in higher
education management and productivity, this book will also appeal
to government officials and university leaders keen to know more
about institutional reform and how to achieve better performance.
The reconstruction of higher education in Australia through the
creation of the Unified National System of Higher Education at the
end of the 1980s by John Dawkins is commonly seen as a watershed.
It brought new ways of funding, directing and organising
universities, expanding their size, reorienting their activities
and setting in train a far-reaching transformation of the academic
enterprise. This volume traces its impact on the balance between
the University of Melbourne's academic mission and external
expectations, and how it adjusted to neutralise the impact of the
change and restore the balance. At Melbourne, the Dawkins
revolution changed little in the way it understood itself and
conducted its affairs, but changed everything.
A revolution swept through universities three decades ago,
transforming them from elite institutions into a mass system of
higher education.Teaching was aligned with occupational outcomes,
research was directed to practical results. Campuses grew and
universities became more entrepreneurial. Students had to juggle
their study requirements with paid work, and were required to pay
back part of the cost of their degrees. The federal government
directed this transformation through the creation of a Unified
National System.How did this happen? What were the gains and the
losses? No End of a Lesson explores this radical reconstruction and
assesses its consequences.
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