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Title

Building better pathways to higher education

Author(s)

Young, Ian

Abstract

Australia, like many other countries around the world, needs to seriously consider how its tertiary (Higher Education and Vocational Education) system will effectively meet changing societal needs. As modern nations progressively become knowledge economies, the proportion of our population which progresses from secondary school to tertiary education will increase. Our universities and TAFE Institutes have, however, evolved from systems where only a small proportion of the population progressed to tertiary education. It is questionable whether simply scaling-up the existing structures is the logical way to meet such an expanded demand.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Chancellery

Source

Paper presented at the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 03-04 April 2007

Publication year

2007

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Bologna model;  Colleges;  Education;  Financial analysis;  Higher education;  Pathway model;  TAFE;  Technical and Further Education;  Universities;  University of Melbourne;  Vocational education

Publisher

Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit

Publisher URL

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/chance/vc/messages_opinions.html