Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience
dc.contributor.author | Pitman, Tim | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T11:18:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T11:18:01Z | |
dc.date.created | 2015-06-23T20:00:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Pitman, T. 2014. Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience. Quality in Higher Education. 20 (3): pp. 348-363. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10320 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13538322.2014.957944 | |
dc.description.abstract |
This article explores the relationship between mass education, higher education quality and policy development in Australia in the period 2008–2014, during which access to higher education was significantly increased. Over this time, which included a change of national government, the discursive relationship between mass higher education and higher education quality shifted from conceptualising quality as a function of economic productivity, through educational transformation and academic standards, to market competition and efficiency. Throughout, the student was more often positioned as a servant towards higher education quality, rather than its benefactor. | |
dc.publisher | Routledge Taylor & Francis Group | |
dc.subject | mass education | |
dc.subject | academic standards | |
dc.subject | widening participation | |
dc.subject | higher education | |
dc.subject | quality | |
dc.subject | critical discourse analysis | |
dc.subject | higher education policy | |
dc.title | Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 20 | |
dcterms.source.number | 3 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 348 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 363 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 13538322 | |
dcterms.source.title | Quality in Higher Education | |
curtin.note |
The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in the journal Quality in Higher Education. 2014. | |
curtin.department | John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP) | |
curtin.accessStatus | Open access |