About

The Higher Education Policy Project (HEPP) is based in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Queensland and funded by the Australian Research Council. It has as its raison d'etre a wide-ranging analysis of the role of higher education in Australia and, in particular, the changes which have occurred in the transition form an elite to a mass system in the period since World War Two and their relationship to wider social, political, cultural and economic contexts.

As evidence in this collection of working papers, a wide cross-section of topics is being considered including, for example, changing models of teacher education, the incorporation of nurse education into higher education, the articulation of TAFE and higher education, the role of academic unions, the exports of educational services, equity and social justice in higher education, and tertiary entrance. Ultimately, the various strands of research will be brought together and analysed to provide a basis for judgements on and recommendations for the role of higher education in Australia.

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Contributions

Introduction

Papers:

1. Higher Education, National Development, and the Academic Profession: Do we still want "Good People thinking about the Universe"?
   Paige Porter, Bob Lingard, John Knight
2. Equal Access to Higher Education: Discourses and Debate
   Peter McNamee
3. Higher Education Equity Policy - A Fair Chance for All Viewed in context
   Maureen Bowen
4. Access Higher Education: A Case Study of Indigenous Higher Education Policy
   Cathryn McConaghy
5. Good Politics or Good Management: The Making of Higher Education Entry Policy in Queensland
   Trevor Gale
6. Testing Times
   Daphne Meadmore
7. Organising Academics: Exploring the Salience of Class
   John McCollow
8. Education, Markets and the Contradictions of Asia-Australia Relations
   Don Alexander and Fazal Rizi
9. From Aid to Trade: Contradictions, Contestations, and Complexities of Australia's Policy to Market Education to Asia
   Delroy Brown
10. The Historically Contingent Relations of the State in the Transfer of Nurse Education
    Carol Swendson
11. The Status of TAFE - Kangan and Finn
    Jan Robinson
12. The Economics of Teacher Education Early '80's Style
    Maureen Bella
13. Postpostitivist Research in Education: Theorising Social Structure in Critical and Institutional Ethnography
    Peter O'Brien
14. Dis/counting Teacher Education: the Beasley Papers
    John Knight, Bob Lingard

Notes on Contributors

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