Rethinking Tertiary Education: Building on the work of Peter Noonan edited by Peter Dawkins, Megan Lilly and Robert Pascoe

Foreword by Julia Gillard

The future of Australia as a post-industrial economy depends on how knowledge, skills and capabilities are learned and fostered. Every Australian will need to engage with the tertiary education system, both to acquire an initial qualification and to up-skill or re-skill over the course of their lives.

The time has come to address the divide between vocational and higher education and implement a reform agenda that has been in development over the last decade. This will involve reforming the Australian Qualifications Framework to give greater recognition to skills alongside knowledge, and enable the vocational and higher education sectors to design fit-for-purpose courses. It will also require reform of the pathways, partnerships, curriculum, funding and regulation and to provide the coherence, quality, navigability and relevance needed for students, providers and industry.

The central figure in the development of this policy agenda was Peter Noonan, professor of Tertiary Education at Victoria University, who sadly passed away in 2022 after forty years as Australia’s leading tertiary education policy thinker and adviser to both sides of government.

Rethinking Tertiary Education outlines a systematic approach to the reform agenda, involving a range of prominent experts who have been brought together by the Mitchell Institute for Education and Health Policy at Victoria University, in partnership with the Australian Industry Group’s Centre for Education and Training, where Noonan was a member of the board. The authors are his colleagues and collaborators who have been key players in the development of the reform agenda.

Specifications:

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Year: 2023

Format: Paperback

Pages: 275

ISBN: 9780522879964

$40.00

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