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Education

Spreading Academic Nets

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April 2004, no. 260

Consortia: International Networking Alliances of Universities edited by David Teather

Melbourne University Press, $44.95 pb, 270 pp

Education

Spreading Academic Nets

by •
April 2004, no. 260

The travails of Australian universities have increased in recent years, for well-aired reasons. These considerable difficulties followed unsettling and much criticised structural transformation initiated during the Dawkins era. They have been accompanied by pressures for international benchmarking of performance, the rapid growth of information technology, and an added impetus to form international networking alliances. 

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John Nieuwenhuysen is currently Director of the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements; Deputy Chancellor of RMIT University; Chair of the Board of VITS Language Link; a member of the Board of the Australian Multicultural Foundation, and of the Australian Research Council Expert Advisory Committee on the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences.
John Nieuwenhuysen reviews ‘Consortia: International Networking Alliances of Universities’ edited by David Teather

Consortia: International Networking Alliances of Universities

edited by David Teather

Melbourne University Press, $44.95 pb, 270 pp

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