The recontextualisation of ‘quality’ in Australian higher education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11487544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lesley Vidovich (corresponding author), Paige Porter (0000-0002-2988-4095) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 233-252 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Education Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-0939 • E-ISSN: 1464-5106 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0268093970120403 |
| OpenAlex | W2048928179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 18 |
In the education policy arena, the notion of ‘quality'as a mechanism for increasing accountability to stakeholders has risen to prominence in the 1990s, as part of the micro‐economic reform agenda of many national governments. This study analyses the way in which policy makers in Australian higher education have recontextualised the notions of quality adopted in other countries to reconstruct a uniquely Australian version. Further, the study analyses how this recontextualisation continues from the ministerial level, through the Higher Education Council (HEC), and then the Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (CQAHE), to the site of intended policy effect ‐‐ individual universities. A theoretical framework, in part offered by Stephen Ball's policy trajectory studies, is employed to examine the negotiation, resistance and even transformation of the original ministerial quality policy of 1991. A central contention is that the operation of the subsequent 3‐year cycle of quality reviews between 1993 and 1995 provides an example par excellence of a government strategy of ‘steering at a distance’
Accountability · Economics · Economy · Education policy · Excellence · Government (linguistics · Higher education · Negotiation · Policy analysis · Political science · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Quality assurance · Sociology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Learning Practices · Law · Public Administration
Reforming education and changing schools
Education reform
Education and Public Policy in Australia
Politics and Policy Making in Education
Economic Rationalism in Canberra
Policy Research and Policy Theory
Defining Quality
Partnership, pluralism and education policy
The ‘Policy Cycle’
Economic rationalism and the politics of education in Australia
Government power in British higher education
The Postmodern Condition
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2016 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |