Life After Dawkins

The University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education

Stuart Macintyre, Gwilym Croucher, and André Brett

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Published 18-04-2016
ISBN 9780522869736
Pages 186
Subjects Educational strategies & policy
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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 examines how the University of Melbourne both adapted to and resisted the Unified National System, how it took advantage of the opportunities for growth while affirming its academic mission. While the Dawkins revolution changed little in the way that Melbourne understood itself and conducted its affairs, it changed everything.

Stuart Macintyre was Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. His previous works include A Proletarian Science, Winners and Losers: The Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian History, Volume 4 of the Oxford History of Australia and A Colonial Liberalism.

Gwilym Croucher is a public policy academic and adviser specialising in higher education at the University of Melbourne. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education as well as Principal Policy Adviser in the University of Melbourne's Chancellery.