Open AccessAustralian Universities Under Neoliberal Management: The Deepening Crisis
Author(s) -
Raewyn Connell
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-4501
pISSN - 1084-0613
DOI - 10.6017/ihe.2015.81.8740
Subject(s) - workforce , neoliberalism (international relations) , public funding , political science , higher education , economic growth , colonialism , public administration , economics , law
Australian universities were transformed from small colonial outposts of European education to a relatively large public higher education sector by national development funding. Neoliberal management since the 1980s has transformed the universities into export-oriented corporations, is placing severe stress on the younger workforce, and is generating a crisis in the production of an intellectual culture.