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The discussion frames education as shaped by—and also shaping—prevailing socio-political conditions, including shifts in terminology. Drawing on an earlier TEM Conference paper (2010), it outlines three intertwined social and educational phases and uses the period from the late 1950s onward as a starting point, noting expansion in universities and technical education. The authors stress that future arrangements will be influenced by earlier structural changes made by governments.","A U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nLooking back into the future  \nArthur O’Neill & Bob Speechley  \nHaving worked for many decades at the hopeless task of administering higher education institutions, these two old codgers regurgitate their experience for the benefit of new chums and speculate about the next half century. This paper is based on one presented at the TEM Conference, 3-6 October 2010, Melbourne.  \nIntroduction  \nWe’ve racked our brains, as much as is left of them, to figure out what happened in Australian post-secondary education over the last fifty or so years; and to predict what sort of arrangement our great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren, will encounter fifty years hence. To put this modest project another way: what in 2060 might a historian (assuming there are, then, historians) write about our topic over the previous one hundred years?  \nThen, as now, she/he would know that society and study are a two-way stretch: education is embedded in and gives layers of expression to prevailing socio-political conditions. As these alter, or stay relatively unaltered, so does the shape, size, content and direction of education; and so also does the language used to hatch and cross-hatch bits of it. Raymond Williams (1976) sagely reminds us of the historically shaped senses in which certain keywords are used. We have in mind the variable ways in which‘advanced’,‘higher’,‘sector’,‘system’,‘technical’,‘technological’,‘tertiary’,‘training’and ‘vocational’ have been associated with use of the word ‘education’.We say more about that later.  \nTo help provide a testamentary source for a future historian, we’ve picked out three intertwined social and educational phases over the last fifty and-a-bit years, starting around 1957 and ending now.Then we make some guesses about the social order in 2060, and  \n94 Looking back into the future, Arthur O’Neill & Bob Speechley  \ntherefore about how Australian post-secondary education might be in that year. We best say now that it won’t be a pretty picture but, as one of Murphy’s Laws says,‘Smile …Tomorrow Will Be Worse’.  \nThe past  \nIn January 1957 a conservative Prime Minister, Robert Gordon Menzies, set up a committee chaired by a Pom to inquire into the future of Australian Universities. Its report instituted a shift to federal direction and funding by way of successive States Grants (Universities) Acts, to endorsement of and support for new universities and increases in the sizes of old ones, and to the establishment of an advisory grants committee to provide continuing advice to governments about universities (Murray, 1957) .  \nMenzies catered for a demand. Susan Davies, a firstrate historian of these and later events, says:  \nThe years from the late fifties to the middle sixties marked the second phase of post-war expansion of tertiary education in Australia. From a low point in the mid fifties, student numbers grew in colleges and universities. The systems of technical education – in particular in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia – underwent rapid expansion. Existing institutions increased in size and new technical colleges were established in rural and metropolitan locations. The number of teachers in training doubled and trebled in some instances. In  \nvol. 53, no. 1, 2011  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nevery Australian State at least one new teachers’college opened its doors in this period (Davies, 1989, p. 15) .  \nNot only was the expansion brought on by population growth but also it indicated altered expectations about continuing formal education beyond secondary schooling. Menzies catered to the ambitions of a rapidly increasing Australian middle class; and the changes he instituted had a knock-on effect, leading to further demand. 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