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Download full textBessant, Bob – Australian Universities' Review, 1986
Australian higher education has experienced considerable controversy over issues of academic freedom in its history, but the equilibrium reached in the 1960s and 1970s is now threatened by a trend toward private ownership and participation in institutional matters and the threat to institutional and faculty autonomy that accompanies it. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Educational Change, Educational History, Foreign Countries
Bessant, Bob – Australian Universities' Review, 1988
Background and implications of the apparent trend toward adoption of corporate management techniques for college and university administration in Australia are examined, and problems seen in this approach are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Bessant, Bob – Australian Universities' Review, 1995
The degree to which administrative approaches and techniques used in business have been adopted in Australian higher education, and in public agencies governing higher education, is examined. It is concluded that the assumption that corporate management techniques are the only form of efficient management is both erroneous and incompatible with…
Descriptors: Business Administration, College Administration, College Environment, College Role
