A Review of Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document
(PDF Link)
Conclusion:
The challenge in correcting the views of the Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document is that the problems are what are missing; it is argument of negativity which in the social psychology of the country, fewer minds can grapple with the Document’s:
- no framing in sociology;
- no framing in philosophy; and
- no consideration of the historiography of higher education.
Missing is also the critique of how the idealistic or utopian valuing in the research-teaching nexus favours one part of the population against another part. According to the nexus policy, academics are employed to be researchers who excel in research and equally in teaching; and vice versa. What this means is that, over three decades, brilliant researchers and brilliant teachers have ended up underemployed or even unemployed since they were judged, individually, not to measure up to a colleague on a precise criterion of research or teaching. Rather than being efficient, the Australian higher education system has become the most inefficient in outcomes of broader humanities and social sciences.
The full review is at this PDF link
Featured Image: The University of Queensland, circa 1963. Source: State Library of Queensland.
Figure:. The Source of Radicalism — The University of Queensland, circa 1963. Source: State Library of Queensland.
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