Gale, T. (1999) Fair contest or elite sponsorship? Entry settlements in Australian higher education. Higher Education Policy, 12(1), pp. 69-91. (doi: 10.1016/S0952-8733(98)00032-4)
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Abstract
Significant change to Australian higher education occurred between March, 1987 and March, 1996, under the direction of a Federal Labor Government. At one level, the period witnessed an increase in the provision of higher education and variation in the criteria used to grant student entry. Such change represented a crisis in higher educations traditional or qualified-entry settlement which led to its resettling around a more diversified-entry arrangement. The organising logic of this diversified-entry was characterised by the discourses of contest (fairness in competition) rather than sponsorship (selection by association), although the latter appears to have been just better hidden.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Gale, Professor Trevor |
Authors: | Gale, T. |
College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Education |
Journal Name: | Higher Education Policy |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. |
ISSN: | 0952-8733 |
ISSN (Online): | 1740-3863 |
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