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This paper draws on the experience of a project commissioned by the Australian National Centre for Vocational Education Research. Its main research question was: How can an understanding of the development (in the 1960s) and implementation (from the 1960s to 1980s) of a binary policy of higher education in Australia inform the current debate about reforming the tertiary education sector?
The reforms in the 1960s in Australia were prompted by the findings of the Martin Committee set up the Menzies government, which was in turn influenced by the Robbins Report (1963) in the United Kingdom and California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 developed by Clark Kerr. They resulted in a binary system of universities and colleges of advanced education (akin to European polytechnics, institutes of technology). The hypothesis of the research was that with the current unified system of universities splintering, it was timely to better understand the challenges the binary system faced and what lessons it offered.
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References
Beddie, F. (2014a) A differentiated model for tertiary education: past ideas, contemporary policy and future possibilities, NCVER, Adelaide. https://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/publications/all-publications/a-differentiated-model-for-tertiary-education-past-ideas,-contemporary-policy-and-future-possibilities
Beddie, F. (2014b) What next for tertiary education? Some preliminary sketches, NCVER, Adelaide.
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