HIGHER EDUCATION: The rise of the entrepreneurial university*

Australian universities are, except in a few regional areas, mass universities: multipurpose institutions offering a potentially bewildering range of courses. They are entrepreneurial bodies, no longer primarily supported by state grants but heavily reliant on non-state “outside” funding. They are bureaucratic corporations run by a large administrative class.Grant Harman, professor of educational management at the University of New England, New South Wales, summed up in 2001 the main changes in …

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