Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience

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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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Main Author:	Pitman, Tim
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2014
Subjects:	mass education academic standards widening participation higher education quality critical discourse analysis higher education policy
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10320

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