Monash: Remaking the University

Monash: Remaking the Universityis the story of Australia's largest university and its dramatic transformation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when government policies opened up Australian higher education to a whirlwind of change. In less than a decade, the once quiet research university in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs reinvented itself as a corporate mega-academy three times its original size, multiplied from one site to six, enrolled 6000 international students and initiated a chain of campuses around the world. Monash: Remaking the Universityexamines the changing character of government, education and knowledge itselfthe irresistible external forces in a globalising world and the manner in which the University manoeuvred to use those forces to its best advantagethe challenges, problems and costs in turning a major institution aroundand the people who studied, taught and researched at Monash and made its reinvention possible.This is no 'ivory tower' history of an institution in isolation but a book engaged with telling the larger story of the transformation of Australia's higher education. It is the first study of the massive changes that have taken place in Australian universities in the Labor years and after, and of the pros and cons of these changes. The core theme of Monash: Remaking the Universityis the transformation of alluniversities in this time-the manner in which the corporate and academic identities of these institutions have been driven together, amid globalisation and the knowledge economy, public sector reform and rising community participation in higher education. Monash is the most dramatic example of allit is the university which best exemplifies the times.Marginson, Simon is the author of 'Monash: Remaking the University', published 2000 under ISBN 9781865082684 and ISBN 1865082686.