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Smith, Erica – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
This paper examines responses to the trend for increasing participation in tertiary education, linking developments in higher education with those in apprenticeship systems, in Australia and the United Kingdom. In both sectors, expansion proceeded for several decades, but was robustly criticised in both countries. The expansion of access to these…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education
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Hopgood, Susan – Journal of School Choice, 2015
This article is a response to Kevin Donnelly's article, "The Australian Education Union: A History of Opposing School Choice and School Autonomy Down-Under," and aims to correct specific errors and misrepresentations as found by Susan Hopgood, Federal Secretary of the Australian Education Union. She argues that the article is misleading…
Descriptors: School Choice, Institutional Autonomy, Reader Response, Unions
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Howie, Mark – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2008
The neo-conservative subjectification of English teachers (as "language technicists" and "preachers of culture") is being resisted in Australia (for example, Doecke, Howie and Sawyer, 2006a). In this climate of contestation, the (re) conceptualisation of English as a critical space promoting social justice cannot be ethical or…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Advocacy