Beautiful lies, damned statistics
Reframing Australian university funding
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12576945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoff Sharrock (0000-0002-6816-8016, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-080X • E-ISSN: 1469-9508 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1360080x.2016.1150231 |
| OpenAlex | W2293436156 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Since the late 1990s, public funding for Australian universities has fallen and has reached new lows in the past decade, it is said. Recent commentary ranks Australia ‘second last in the OECD’ for its public spending on universities. However, many comparisons present flawed and misleading interpretations of OECD statistics. The disparities most often highlighted overlook the particularities of the Australian sector and overstate the extent of its ‘relative under-funding’ of universities
Cognitive reframing · Economics · Higher education · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Statistics · Global Health Workforce Issues · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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