https://www.phansw.org.au/what-next-for-tertiary-education-some-preliminary-sketches-informed-by-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-next-for-tertiary-education-some-preliminary-sketches-informed-by-history Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:49:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.phansw.org.au/what-next-for-tertiary-education-some-preliminary-sketches-informed-by-history/#comment-60409 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:35:33 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1573#comment-60409 On the history of education and policy, readers may be interested in Hannah Forsyth’s article in the Conversation: http://theconversation.com/maybe-free-university-didnt-improve-access-for-all-but-neither-will-fee-deregulation-31165

]]> https://www.phansw.org.au/what-next-for-tertiary-education-some-preliminary-sketches-informed-by-history/#comment-56811 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:31:48 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1573#comment-56811 Thanks Francesca for a very interesting post and links. I am about half way through your essay, and I think it provides some insights into the relationships between life-long learning and working freelance as a public historian.
I well remember the Dawkins reforms coming in, as I was a UWA undergrad at the time and involved in student politics. I was never persuaded that abolition of the CAEs was a good idea, and despite what Prof Craven says in the introduction to the report, I wouldn’t be surprised if they return in some other form and name.
To just take the example of continuing professional development for public historians, I have not found either universities of TAFEs particularly responsive to such ideas, and some academics (not all) seem to be either mystified by the idea of historians working outside the academy or even antagonistic. Perhaps there is also an issue that the number of public historians is just not large enough for any institution to see them as a ‘market’ for which they might develop some programs?
I will be very interested to see what others might think.

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