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Building the total university.(Universities)

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| December 01, 2003 | Caterson, Simon | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WHEN SAMUEL BECKETT was asked why he made the two tramps Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot sound as if they had earned PhDs, he replied: "How do you know they hadn't?"

There are universities everywhere in Australia, yet nowhere do they exist, at least not in the traditional sense. The massive growth in, and concomitant disappearance of, universities in this country has occurred in less than a generation and has met with little resistance. Partly this is because there is a fundamental gap in experience between those who drive change in universities and those who are subject to the consequences of so-called reforms.

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