Remaking The University Monash

by SimonMarginson (Author)

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  Monash: Remaking the University is the story of Australia's largest university and its dramatic transformation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when government policies opened up Australian higher education to a whirlwind of change. In less than a decade, the once quiet research university in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs reinvented itself as a corporate mega-academy three times its original size, multiplied from one site to six, enrolled 6000 international students and initiated a chain of campuses around the world. Monash: Remaking the University examines the changing character of government, education and knowledge itself the irresistible external forces in a globalising world and the manner in which the University manoeuvred to use those forces to its best advantage the challenges, problems and costs in turning a major institution around and the people who studied, taught and researched at Monash and made its reinvention possible. This is no 'ivory tower' history of an institution in isolation but a book engaged with telling the larger story of the transformation of Australia's higher education. It is the first study of the massive changes