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Mark Rosenfeld reports about surprisingly similar  \nmovements in Canada’s largest province.  \nThe past few years have been critical for tertiary education in Australia. The lengthy Crossroads review of higher education launched by the Commonwealth Government in 2002 has now culminated in the May 2003 Budget proposal for a sweeping reform of the Australian university system. Concern about the Coalition’s past and future directions for higher education has also been clearly articulated by staff and students in the university community and by the Opposition parties. A few months before the launch of the government’s reform package, for example, the Australian Senate was asked by oneof its Australian Labor Party members to discuss, as an urgent matter of public importance:  \nThe failure of the government to defend Australia’s national system of higher education, as evidenced by:  \nL declining public funding for higher education, L a deliberate policy of cost shifting to students, L an inability to tackle problems of growing unmet demand,  \nL the continuing brain-drain of researchers out of Australia and the continuing decline in research infra-structure, particularly at regional universities, and  \nL a consequent decline in the standards and quality of higher education. (Australian Senate 2003)  \nAustralian concerns about higher education and government policy would have resonance with a Canadian audience. Like Australia, Canadian higher education has experienced large-scale cuts in government funding,the deregulation of tuition fees in particular programs and general cost shifting to students, universities’inability to accommodate increased student demand, a faculty ‘brain drain’ and projected large-scale faculty shortages as well as critical shortages of graduatesin a number of areas including nursing, medicine and teaching. Private-sector oriented research policies have been implemented and legislation changed to allow for private, for-profit universities. The result has been a general decline in higher education quality. Also like Australia, Canadian Government higher education policy has both eroded the once long-standing public and community focus of universities and promoted  \nas a substitute the concept of universities as business-oriented service providers differentiated from other businesses only by the product offered.  \nThese directions have been particularly acute in Ontario, Canada’s largest province with almost 40% of the country’s population and higher education students. The Ontario Government’s higher education initiatives make for an interesting comparison with theAustralian Commonwealth Government’s policy directions for a number of reasons. Provincial governments, the equivalent of the Australian state governments, are largely responsible for higher education. The Canadian Federal Government plays a much less direct role, providing funding for research and student financial assistance – which provincial governments also provide – as well as transfer payments which are only notionally directed to the support of higher education. Like Australia at the federal level, for most of the past decade Ontario has been governed by a neo-conservative political party intent on reshaping public sector institutions on the basis of private sector models. Similar public policy initiatives are not surprising, given the conscious borrowing of policy directions among governments. The higher education sector is also dominated by publicly-funded universities of various sizes, histories and scope of activity. In 2001-02, Ontario had 17 public universities with a full-time equivalent enrolment of 264,000 students, 11,600 academic staff and 16,800 non-academic general staff.  \nNonetheless, Ontario has not gone completely ‘down the road’ of Australian higher education","cbCaioxxJJK0qH5I","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioxxJJK0qH5I","pdf",214575,"English","# Australia’s reform context\n## Crossroads review and budget proposal\n# Policy concerns and comparable Canadian trends\n## Funding cuts and cost shifting\n# Ontario’s higher education initiatives\n## Governance, research funding, and incremental approach","[{\"question\":\"What key problems in Australian higher education does the text highlight?\",\"answer\":\"It points to declining public funding, cost shifting to students, inability to meet growing demand, ongoing research brain drain, and deteriorating standards and quality.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Canada’s higher education experience resemble Australia’s, according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"Both are described as facing funding reductions, tuition deregulation in particular programs, cost shifting to students, faculty brain drain and shortages, and a decline in overall higher education quality.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article consider Ontario an important comparison to Australia?\",\"answer\":\"Ontario is framed as Canada’s largest province with significant student enrollment and as having policy initiatives influenced by neo-conservative models, while still differing through better-funded research and more incremental institutional changes.\"}]","Australian Universities Review - Canuck-Do Higher Education | PDF",1792081014]