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Author_Gwilym Croucher
Author_James Waghorne
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History
universities
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- ISBN 9781742236735
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2020
- Publisher: UNSW Press
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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Australian Universities is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand where Australian universities have come from, and where they are heading.
Few of our institutions are as significant or as complex as Australia’s universities. This first comprehensive history of Australia’s university sector explores how universities work and for whom, and how their relationship with each other, their academics and students and the public has evolved over a century.
This book tells the story of how Australia’s universities have expanded to usher in an era of much wider participation in higher education, and shaped and been shaped by internationalism. Since coming together as a sector, universities have had many achievements, such as making research a national undertaking during the Great Depression and reshaping themselves as part of reconstruction after World War II. They were also at the forefront of the establishment of the internet in Australia.
Australian Universities shines a light on these achievements and is essential reading to anyone who seeks to understand where Australian universities have come from, and where they are heading.
Few of our institutions are as significant or as complex as Australia’s universities. This first comprehensive history of Australia’s university sector explores how universities work and for whom, and how their relationship with each other, their academics and students and the public has evolved over a century.
This book tells the story of how Australia’s universities have expanded to usher in an era of much wider participation in higher education, and shaped and been shaped by internationalism. Since coming together as a sector, universities have had many achievements, such as making research a national undertaking during the Great Depression and reshaping themselves as part of reconstruction after World War II. They were also at the forefront of the establishment of the internet in Australia.
Australian Universities shines a light on these achievements and is essential reading to anyone who seeks to understand where Australian universities have come from, and where they are heading.
Gwilym Croucher is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, and Program Director at the LH Martin Institute. He is a co-author of two histories with Stuart Macintyre and André Brett: Life After Dawkins: The University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education; and No End of a Lesson: The Creation and Consequences of Australia’s Unified National System of Higher Education.
James Waghorne is a Senior Research Fellow, who leads the University History Program in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Liberty: A History of Civil Liberties in Australia, co-authored with Stuart Macintyre, and The First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia, 1914–1936, co-edited with Kate Darian-Smith.
James Waghorne is a Senior Research Fellow, who leads the University History Program in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Liberty: A History of Civil Liberties in Australia, co-authored with Stuart Macintyre, and The First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia, 1914–1936, co-edited with Kate Darian-Smith.
