[LINK] Agenda for Australian higher education 2013-2016

Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Wed Feb 27 19:04:37 AEDT 2013


On 27/02/13 18:02, Roger Clarke wrote about the Universities Australia 
document:

> ... The managerial era has delivered us a bunch of chief and senior
> executives who are driven by a combination of ego, quarterly-profit
> reports ...

Unlike university professors, who never had an ego and were not 
interested in the size of their research grants? ;-)

> Caveat:  These comments are based on nothing more than the above tiny
> excerpt ...

You can read my HTML conversion of the document summary at: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/02/a-smarter-australia-agenda-for.html#summary

Universities Australia were having web server problems, made worse by 
the way their report was formatted. But they seem to have paid 
Amazon.com for server capacity on the "elastic cloud", so you should be 
able to download the full report now: 
http://universitiesaustralia.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Universities-Australia-A-Smarter-Australia.pdf


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