Australian universities in crisis
Australian universities are confronting a firestorm, the loss of foreign students, the layoff of academics, the underpayment of staff and radical changes to domestic university fees.
Why is our university sector in so much trouble?
Duration: 29min 24sec
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Guests
Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University, CEO of the Paul Ramsey Foundation and author of The Australian Idea of a University.
Senior research fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Higher Education, University of Melbourne and co-author of Australian Universities: A History.
Historian at the Australian catholic University and author of A History of the Modern Australian University.
Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney and a life member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Author of The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and why It's Time for Radical Change.
Credits
Presenter and producer Annabelle Quince