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The Role of Central Government in Higher Education
Author(s) -
Kernel Peter
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1988.tb01808.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , central government , public administration , political science , higher education , local government , law , philosophy , linguistics
This paper addresses three questions: (i) How has the role of central government in higher education evolved?(ii) What have been the main concerns of government?(iii) How should government canny out its role?The first two questions are examined by looking at the historical record in Australia. Australia's experience does not differ greatly from that of Britain .