Fair contest or elite sponsorship? Entry settlements in Australian higher education

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
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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