Universities, expertise and the First World War

Horne, Julia; Pietsch, Tamson

doi:10.1108/her-04-2016-0019

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“…The University of Sydney Act 1850 also provided the framework for managing the university. Subsequently, other states created a similar legislation with a focus on higher education being freely available to all citizens who met requirements, regardless of class and creed (Horne and Pietsch, 2016; North, 2016).…”

Section: Results: Establishing Government–governance Connectivitymentioning

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How do government policies influence the governance paradigm of Australian public universities?

Christopher

Ukwatte

Yapa

2020

JMH

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Purpose This study aims to examine how government policies have influenced the governance paradigm of Australian public universities from a historical perspective. In doing so, it addresses current uncertainty on government-governance connectivity. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on Foucault’s concept of governmentality and governance and uses a developed framework of three constituents of governance to explore government–governance connectivity through a critical discourse analysis. Findings The findings reveal that government policies have influenced the three constituents of governance differently since 1823, resulting in three distinct governance discourses. In the third governance discourse, the findings reveal a deviation from policy directions towards corporate managerialism, resulting in a hybrid governance control environment. This scenario has arisen due to internal stakeholders continuing to be oriented towards the previous management cultures. Other factors include structural and legalistic obstacles to the implementation of corporate managerialism, validity of the underlying theory informing the policy directions towards corporate managerialism and doubts on the achievability of the market based reforms associated with corporate managerialism. The totality of these factors suggests a theory practice gap to be confirmed through further empirical research. There are also policy implications for policymakers to recognize the hybrid control environment and ascertain the risk the hybrid control environment poses towards the expected outcomes of corporate managerialism. Research limitations/implications The findings are limited to a critical discourse analysis of data from specific policies and journal publications on higher education and a developed framework of constituents of governance. Originality/value The study is the first to examine government–governance connectivity in Australian public universities and also the first to introduce a three-constituent governance framework as a conduit to explore such studies. The findings contribute to the literature in identifying a theory-practice gap and offer opportunities for further research to confirm them.

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Section: Results: Establishing Government–governance Connectivitymentioning

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How do government policies influence the governance paradigm of Australian public universities?

Christopher

Ukwatte

Yapa

2020

JMH

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“…Most students were middle-class, and they were predominantly training for future professional careers. Yet the war had also awoken greater civic feeling on the part of students, their staff, students and graduates, forming part of a "knowledge front", offering service that drew on their knowledge and expertise (Horne, 2016;Horne and Pietsch, 2016).…”

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Australian university and medical school life during the 1919 influenza pandemic

Waghorne

2020

HER

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PurposeThis article examines the impact of the 1919 influenza pandemic on the life and culture of Australian universities, and the curious absence of sustained discussion about the crisis in university magazines. It considers two contexts, from the perspective of the general university population, and from the particular focus of medical students.Design/methodology/approachThe primary source for this analysis is based on detailed reading of university magazines across three universities, as well as other primary and secondary literature. The article was written during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, which has limited access to some other magazines held in library collections, but the corpus of material is more than sufficient.FindingsThis article shows that the pandemic further deferred the resumption of university life after a hiatus during the First World War. The failure to identify the causal agent limited technical discussion in medical school magazines.Originality/valueThis is one of the first dedicated studies of the effect of the 1919 influenza pandemic on Australian universities. It joins a growing body of work considering the effect of the influenza on different community groups.

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Universities, expertise and the First World War

Cited by 2 publications

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How do government policies influence the governance paradigm of Australian public universities?

How do government policies influence the governance paradigm of Australian public universities?

Australian university and medical school life during the 1919 influenza pandemic

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