Higher Education Policy in Australia: Corporate or Coercive Federalism?

Although the Hawke government's general strategy of corporate federalism may dominate educational policy in Australia, higher education (excluding teacher education) is an exception. Because the Commonwealth assumed full financial responsibility for higher education, it has increasingly employe...

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Published inJournal of education policy Vol. 6; no. 1; p. 97
Main Author Smart, Don
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1991
Subjects
Administrative Organization
Australia
Centralization
Corporate Federalism
Educational Change
Educational Finance
Educational Policy
Federal Government
Foreign Countries
Government Role
Higher Education
Australia
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Summary:Although the Hawke government's general strategy of corporate federalism may dominate educational policy in Australia, higher education (excluding teacher education) is an exception. Because the Commonwealth assumed full financial responsibility for higher education, it has increasingly employed coercive federalism or simply ignored the states. (12 references) (MLH)
ISSN:0268-0939
DOI:10.1080/0268093910060108