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		INTRODUCTION Since they were introduced in the mid 1980s, the Dawkins reforms of higher education and subsequent Commonwealth higher education policy have been the focus of extensive/substantial analysis.
		Reform is about change, change for the better, and hence, explicitly or implicitly, progress.
		Thus reform is an essential constituent of modernity, and the modern polity.
	www.aare.edu.au /95pap/dudlj95098.txt (4781 words)

	The intellectual holocaust in our universities has just begun - OpinionWebDiaristJohnWojdylo - www.smh.com.au
		The reforms could therefore have the character of a bloody purge, with government henchmen appointed to strategic positions, while entrenching a compliant majority in the most important university governing bodies.
		The current Austrian reforms' strategic goal is the establishment of a vertical power apparatus permeating all levels, with which the government - the present one or any in the future - can in principle directly influence every aspect of university life.
		In contrast to the reforms being enacted in Austria, each Australian university is - in early 2003 - autonomous in the sense that its actual peak body is the senate - not the "executive group" or some other council - and the senate is not dominated by external appointees.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/13/1044927727359.html (7233 words)

	Policy > 2003 > Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations
		It is now important that policy reform is delivered to the Australian community through the immediate provision of adequate financial resources to our universities and support for students.
		The vice-chancellors of the Group of Eight universities have welcomed the Government's reform agenda as the most comprehensive and radical package since the Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s.
		Reform of, and support for, university research in Australia must now be a priority issue for the 2004 budget and it is noted that a number of Government reviews are underway and the ALP policy is soon to be released.
	www.go8.edu.au /policy/papers/2003/0818.htm (2033 words)

	Submission 22
		Yet, it is expected that many of the arguments for the reform or abolition of the structural separation between universities and TAFE institutes will rely on assertions about the benefits of competitive efficiencies and educational markets.
		Rather than meritocratic reforms, which would have introduced the best aspects of the CAE sector directly to all universities, competitive reform reinforced the relative position of the stronger and higher status institutions at the expense of the rest.
		In considering the effect of reform on students and their educational choices the key issue is whether bringing TAFE into more direct competition with universities, for example through offering degree level generalist qualifications, will simply increase the vertical distance across which institutions are spread.
	www.aph.gov.au /house/committee/ewr/tafes/subs/SUB22~1.htm (3636 words)

	Education \| Bigger is better?
		In this respect, there is some similarity with the "Dawkins reforms" in Australia, named after the minister John Dawkins.
		The overhaul of higher education by Dawkins involved a more ambitious and sweeping steer by government than the stop-go promotion of market forces operating in the UK at the moment.
		Dawkins's reforms abolished the binary divide, substantially increased enrolments, made research funding more selective, and promoted increasingly managerial governance in larger universities.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4544091-48826,00.html (707 words)

	GLOBALISING AND LOCALISING QUALITY POLICY IN AUSTRALIAN HIGHER EDUCATION
		Minister Dawkins clearly set an agenda to achieve tighter Commonwealth Government control across all sectors of education in order to serve 'the national interest' and he focused on higher education first because he was able to use financial 'carrots' and 'sticks' more directly in that sector.
		His White Paper (Dawkins, 1988) foreshadowed the use of performance indicators as the basis for funding universities, but by 1991, when he moved to become Treasurer, the performance indicator project had stalled.
		In this analysis 6 university case studies were selected, representing three 'types' of institutions labelled as 'traditional' (old, established and well endowed), 'alternative' (established in the 1960s/70s) and 'former colleges' (transformed from teacher colleges and then colleges of advanced education with the Dawkins' reforms of 1988).
	www.aare.edu.au /99pap/vid99165.htm (7006 words)

	Universities: Quality education leads to responsible citizenship - On Line Opinion - 8/11/2004
		As we head down the road of reform, the most significant reforms since Dawkins restructured the sector in the 1980s, it is timely to comment on two specific and related issues.
		One of the features to emerge from the current reforms is a level of bureaucratic interference in university administration that is now quite far reaching in its impact.
		As the reforms are implemented, all the indications are that government interference will increase to new heights, including attempts to dictate to universities the courses they can and should not teach — an unacceptable interference with academic independence.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=2711 (1092 words)

	Flinders University: News, events and notices - University reform not necessarily a bad thing, but not inevitable either (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The successive waves of neo-liberal reforms unleashed on Australian universities since the Dawkins era have had positive as well as negative effects, but any claim that they were inevitable cannot be sustained, according to a new book.
		Norway, thanks to a budget surplus from oil production, is not subject to the fiscal pressures experienced elsewhere, and their moves to greater efficiency and to measures such as student evaluation can be seen more as modernisation that did not impinge on core values.
		Conditions for staff and students have been significantly eroded since the Dawkins reforms, although Australian universities are still able to offer world-class education, Dr DeAngelis said.
	www.flinders.edu.au /news/articles?fj18v14s03 (860 words)

	Integral Visioning - Stephen Dinan: Stages of Revolution: Transformational Memes in Motion
		Rather than use a potpourri of terms like ideas, visions, practices, research, paradigms, and innovations, I have chosen to coin a new term called "transformational memes." Richard Dawkins invented the term "meme," which has been gaining currency as a unit of cultural inheritance, much like a gene is a unit of biological inheritance.
		Though the term meme is designed to invoke kinship with genes, the behavior and propagation of memes follow different laws than those of genes, which are largely constrained by reproductive and material limits.
		The move to accept homosexuality, for example, is perceived as extremely threatening to religious morality; the move to implement environmental reforms is perceived as extremely threatening to business and economic interests; the move to give women equal opportunity has been perceived as threatening to the "old boy’s network." Confrontation thus begins.
	integralvisioning.org /article.php?story=sd-stages-revolut (4021 words)

	Queensland University of Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1990, the old Brisbane College of Advanced Education campuses of Kelvin Grove, Kedron and Carseldine became part of Queensland University of Technology in 1990.
		Although the federal government's Dawkins reforms were converting many other tertiary institutions into universities at the time, this change happened independent of the Dawkin's reforms.
		QUT was the first university in Australia to form a Faculty of Information Technology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queensland_University_of_Technology (1001 words)

	Lifelong RN - 15/03/2002: Corridors of Power: From Mandarins to Managers
		Glyn Davis: John Dawkins was the relevant minister and as the minister had a unique say in what happened John Dawkins also had a strong personal interest in these changes and you could see his personal imprint on the report.
		One of the group of younger senior public servants who threw their weight behind the Dawkins reforms was Michael Keating.
		For critics both inside and outside, the reforms of the 1980s amounted to a desecration of the secular chapel, which had been the public service - a betrayal of everything which had made the age of the mandarins a golden age.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/learning/lifelong/stories/s491113.htm (3425 words)

	catallaxy » Blog Archive » In defence of the traditional university (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Miller defends the traditional role of the university against various arguments that are used to defend the downside of the university reforms post Dawkins.
		He is not opposed to reform, just to reform that is destructive.
		Dawkins’ good intentions destroyed not only universities, but also other forms of tertiary education such as Teacher colleges which, with all their faults, were far less irrelevant than what Dawkins tried to make “relevant”.
	badanalysis.com /catallaxy/index.php?p=583 (7439 words)

	Education for users who pay - theage.com.au
		While the stated purpose is to stimulate public discussion, through them can be glimpsed Nelson's blueprint for the most fundamental transformation of the Australian higher education sector since the Dawkins' reforms of the late 1980s.
		At the heart of the Dawkins reforms was the amalgamation of universities and tertiary vocational colleges into a unified higher education sector partly funded by a new system of student loans.
		At the heart of the Nelson vision is a scheme for the de-amalgamation of the sector and for an increase in the tempo towards partial privatisation.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/09/01/1030508159846.html (1091 words)

	AARL issue 32.4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A major intention of the reforms was to redress this situation and have fewer and larger institutions.
		In response to the 'Dawkins reforms' and financial cutbacks, universities restructured - precipitated in some instances by amalgamation, in others to effect financial savings, in others by academic considerations and in others again by a mixture of these.
		The Library Association of Australia's (now ALIA) response to the 'Dawkins reforms' had been to advocate that there should be eight library schools but on the whole this was not welcomed by the schools which maintained that their different emphases were valuable.
	www.alia.org.au /publishing/aarl/32.4/full.text/willard.html (5398 words)

	Sydney Conservatorium of Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1952, a branch of the Conservatorium was established in Newcastle, with an initial intake of 163 students.
		As part of the Dawkins Reforms, the Conservatorium was split, with the Sydney campus amalgamating with the University of Sydney, and the Newcastle campus amalgamating with the University of Newcastle.
		A 1994 review of the Sydney Conservatorium by the University of Sydney resulted in a recommendation ‘That negotiations with the NSW State Government about permanent suitable accommodation for the Conservatorium be pursued as a matter or urgency”
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_conservatorium_of_music (486 words)

	Economics: From emperor to vassal
		The Dawkins “reforms”, the shift of universities towards vocational training—and of students towards credentialism—all reduced the appeal of “hard” subjects like economics.
		Such an external reformation would not be necessary if economics could develop the ability to keep its own room in order, but past behaviour gives little room for confidence.
		The would-be emperor of the social sciences may one day find his empire subjugated, and proper economics— analysis of the evolutionary dynamics of the complex social system in which we actually live—may ultimately be the winner.
	www.debunking-economics.com /Articles/nteu_journal.htm (2651 words)

	The Consequences of Variable Intelligence - Book Review
		Therefore, I assume that it would be extremely difficult or impossible to persuade the members of any minority ethnic group to sacrifice their own reproductive interests for the assumed higher interests of the nation.
		It should be discussed because I do not believe that his radical reproductive reforms could be carried out without coercion.
		It is true that African-Americans are at the bottom of the social and economic scale, but I would like to point out that they have not been losers in the Darwinian struggle for existence.
	www.eugenics.net /papers/Itzkoff.html (4817 words)

	Media: Archived document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The financial management reforms were paralleled by similar changes in personnel management, with progressively increased devolution of authority to agencies.
		The reforms have been continued and extended by the Howard Government with such initiatives as the outcomes/outputs budget structure, new financial legislation and the Workplace Relations Act.
		In referring to the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms of the nineteenth century, he notes that not only was the permanent civil service not seen as inimical to change or an impediment to reform but, on the contrary, it was seen as enabling change, and able to adapt to change.
	www.apsc.gov.au /media/podger020502.htm (3989 words)

	A revolution to what end? - Education News - www.theage.com.au
		Brendan Nelson's revolution is the biggest shake-up of Australian universities since the Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s, perhaps since mass higher education began in the 1960s.
		The Labor Party's John Dawkins created larger and more business-like universities, selected fees and the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS), and ramped up enrolments by 50 per cent.
		Universities that try to be all things, as in the Dawkins system, now risk dissipating research potential and consigning themselves to bulk teaching in the bargain basement.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Education-News/A-revolution-to-what-end/2005/03/24/1111525274559.html (825 words)

	Great expectations - 7 June 2002 - University News - The University of Sydney News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He has plenty to say too about the Dawkins reforms of 1989 which removed the barriers between universities and the rest of the advanced education sector and led to Sydney's amalgamation with, among others, the Cumberland College of Health Sciences, Sydney College of the Arts and the Institute of Nursing.
		Ten years earlier Williams had chaired a committee of inquiry into education and training which recommended the continuance of a revised binary system, preserving the elite status of universities.
		He still maintains that Sydney suffered for a decade as a result of the Dawkins reforms, losing research income per member of staff and experiencing a rise in the student/staff ratio.
	www.usyd.edu.au /publications/news/020706News/0706_book.html (499 words)

	LTI Blog » 2005 » June (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Historically, for example, social reform efforts designed to abolish slavery and establish civil rights for all Americans were led by large ecumenical coalitions that, despite their theological differences, committed themselves to one goal: establishing a more just society.
		Second, the purpose of cultural reform is not to change the hearts of unregenerate man, but to restrain evil acts by heartless individuals.
		Moreover, I suppose evangelical leaders in the Sudan are wrong to partner with Catholics and Jews reforming a militant Islamic culture (one bent on killing their wives and children) because their “co-belligerence” only creates “a superficial morality,” one that leaves unregenerate men dead in their sins.
	prolifetraining.com /pro-life_blog/?m=200506 (8995 words)

	Roger Scott
		The reason for writing this study is to adjust the public record which provides a misleading representation of the causes and effects of a particular piece of public policy making in which the author played a leading role.
		I aspire to a more substantial exercise in measuring the utility of explanations of public policy making in the general political science literature against these events, which were connected both to the Dawkins reforms of higher education and the contemporaneous emergence of an ACT government.
		This first stage is both intimate and partial but it is intended to serve as a building block for an expanded, more accurate and more reliable analysis through a process of triangulation with other participants and observers.
	www.utas.edu.au /government/APSA/RogerScott.html (265 words)

	RESEARCH ON APPROACHES TO PUBLIC FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF TERTIARY EDUCATION WITHIN SELECTED OECD NATIONS: page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The most significant recent reforms have occurred since the Labour government ‘White Paper’ (Dawkins) reforms from 1988, and the Conservative Coalition government’s push for even greater levels of deregulation of the sector since its election in 1996.
		The Reform package lays the foundation for a ten-year vision for Australian higher education, with more than $2.6 billion of additional Commonwealth funding being invested in the sector over five years.
		2.49 The reforms will establish a partially deregulated system of higher education, in which individual universities are enabled to capitalise on their particular strengths and determine the value of their course offerings in a competitive environment.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /library5/education/rapfte-03.asp (6990 words)

	Print Article: Nelson's vision for the elite
		Over the past several months the minister responsible for higher education, Brendan Nelson, has released seven interesting papers concerning the future of higher education.
		The stated purpose of the papers is to stimulate public discussion, but through them you can glimpse Nelson's blueprint for the most fundamental transformation of the Australian higher education sector since the Dawkins' reforms of the late 1980s.
		Before Dawkins, the most important distinction was between university education and vocational training.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/09/01/1030508161768.html (756 words)

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		The Dawkins’ reform agenda which was in full swing by 1989/1990 needs to be understood in the context of these concerns.
		If institutions could not be obliged to be more coordinated by executive fiat, then at least the number of institutions could be reduced, homogenised, with the hope that in time the administrators of those institutions would themselves make more rational the number of occurrences of disciplines on offer in a particular region or catchment.
		To some extent the Dawkins’ reforms succeeded, though they left much to the individual inclinations and directions of individual institutions.
	www.gu.edu.au /conference/educause2001/papers/Janice_Rickards_and_Tom_Cochrane.doc (2594 words)

	Lifelong RN - 2/8/2002: Corridors of Power: From Mandarins to Managers
		Wave after wave of reform has swept over the public service in the past two decades.
		At the same time, however, John Dawkins, who was at that stage Minister for Finance, was busy producing a blueprint for public service reform.
		Ironically though, it was one of the greatest of the mandarins - Nugget Coombs himself, - who’d begun shaking the pillars of the temple a decade earlier.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/learning/lifelong/stories/s613516.htm (3425 words)

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