Just out of reach: access to equity in Australian higher education

Gale, T.C. (1994) Just out of reach: access to equity in Australian higher education. Australian Universities' Review, 37(2), pp. 8-12.

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Abstract

This paper provides an account of access and equity in Australian higher education across the period of recent Federal Labor governments and specifically of the discourses and practices surrounding A Fair Chance For All: Higher Education That's Within Everyone's Reach, Labor's latest policy on equal access to Australian higher education. The paper positions such an account within Australia's changing national and global economic condition, and the influence of New Right ideologies that proffer efficient and effective public sector management practices and market freedoms that have witnessed a privatisation and peeling back of the welfare state. The paper argues that while Federal Labor has clearly established social justice on the agenda of Australian higher education, it is a justice mediated by particular economic and managerial practices which tend to limit equity to issues of access and place broader equity concerns for higher education just out of reach.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Gale, Professor Trevor
Authors: Gale, T.C.
College/School:College of Social Sciences > School of Education
Journal Name:Australian Universities' Review
Publisher:National Tertiary Education Union
ISSN:0818-8068

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