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Download full textTierney, William G. – Australian Universities' Review, 2001
Summarizes prominent current arguments on academic freedom's endangerment by managerialism and discusses their limitations. Defines a new vision of academic freedom informed by thinking on globalization. Presents findings from interviews with Australian faculty about academic freedom and discusses ways to ensure that academic freedom endures in…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Bureaucracy, College Environment, College Faculty
Direct linkTierney, William G. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2004
Over the last several years the author conducted 126 interviews and held four focus groups with academic staff, administrators and others associated with Australian universities, about the problems and challenges they believed faced the system of tertiary education. Widespread concern and pessimism pervaded the interviews about the future of…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
