Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience
This article explores the relationship between mass education, higher education quality and policy development in Australia in the period 2008–2014, during which access to higher education was significantly increased. Over this time, which included a change of national government, the discursive rel...
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| description | This article explores the relationship between mass education, higher education quality and policy development in Australia in the period 2008–2014, during which access to higher education was significantly increased. Over this time, which included a change of national government, the discursive relationship between mass higher education and higher education quality shifted from conceptualising quality as a function of economic productivity, through educational transformation and academic standards, to market competition and efficiency. Throughout, the student was more often positioned as a servant towards higher education quality, rather than its benefactor. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-103202017-09-13T14:49:27Z Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience Pitman, Tim mass education academic standards widening participation higher education quality critical discourse analysis higher education policy This article explores the relationship between mass education, higher education quality and policy development in Australia in the period 2008–2014, during which access to higher education was significantly increased. Over this time, which included a change of national government, the discursive relationship between mass higher education and higher education quality shifted from conceptualising quality as a function of economic productivity, through educational transformation and academic standards, to market competition and efficiency. Throughout, the student was more often positioned as a servant towards higher education quality, rather than its benefactor. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10320 10.1080/13538322.2014.957944 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group fulltext |
| spellingShingle | mass education academic standards widening participation higher education quality critical discourse analysis higher education policy Pitman, Tim Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience |
| title | Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience |
| title_full | Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience |
| title_fullStr | Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience |
| title_short | Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience |
| title_sort | reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the australian experience |
| topic | mass education academic standards widening participation higher education quality critical discourse analysis higher education policy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10320 |