Employment and Training Advisory Committee: Faculty of Education, University of Technology Sydney - October 1992

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Employment and Training Advisory Commitee content dated October 1992 discusses management within universities and colleges, criticizing sections of the Green and White Papers as amateurish. It examines how staff in the Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) were given authority to direct decisions and management systems. The text also portrays the evolution from a traditional vice chancellor as an amateur administrator to professional, managerial vice chancellors, using referenced commentary and named examples.

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University and college management criticism

Authority to direct institutional decision systems

Evolution of vice chancellors

From amateur administration to professional management

Employment and Training Advisory Commitee:Faculty of Education,Uni-versity of Technology Sydney,October 1992. 6 Anexampleis Connell,R.W.Ashenden,DJ.,Kessler,S.andDowset,G.W.Making the Difference.Schools,Families and Social Division.Sydney:George Allen &Unwin,1982. 7Ford,G.W.Learning from Japan:The concept of skill formation.AustralianBulletin ofLabour,12(2),1986,40-43;Rethinking Skilling for a RestructuredWorkplace Occasional Paper No.10,Melbourne:The Comznission for theFuture,1990. 8 John Mathews has done work on one side of the equation but not clearlylinked the two.Richard Curtain has linked the two but most of his majotcontributions have occured outside of Australia's universities.9 d'Iribarne,A.New training and ncw skills in new factories.VocationalTraining,1987,No.1,7-12;Eliasson,G.and Ryan,P.The Human Factor inEconomic andTechnological Change.OECD Educational Monographs No.3,Paris:OECD,1987;Bertrand,O.and Noyelle,T.Human Resources andCorporate Strategy.Technological Change in Barks and Insurance Compa-nies:France,Germany,Japan,Sweden,United States.Paris:OECD/CERI,1988. 10 Examples include Porter,P.,Rizvi,F.,Knight,J.and Lingard.R.Compe-teacies for a clever country:Building a house of cards?Unicorn,18(3),1992,50-58 and Seddon,T.Framing teacher quality:Tendencies,trends and issues.Paper presented at a Royal Institute of Public Administration and AustralianCollege of Education confercnce on Educating the Clever Country,Canberra:July 1991.An exception which does represent an attempt by a group ofresearchers,largely from the University of Technology,Sydney to make aconstructive conribution,is provided by Gonczi,A.(Ed.)Developing aCompetent Workforce:Adult Learning Strategies for Vocational Educatorsand Trainers.Adelaide:National Centre for Vocational Education Research,1992. 11 Rosenbaum,J.et.al.Youth Apprenticeships in America:Guidelines forBuilding an Effective System.Washington,D.C:WilliamT.Grant FoundaionCommission on Youth and America's Future,1992;Vickers,M.Working tolearn.The Harvard Education Newsletter,IX(2),March/April 1993.12 Stanley,G.The psychology of competency-based education in Collins,C.(Ed.)Competencies.The Competencies Debate in Austrulian Education andTraining.Canberra:The Australian College of Education,1993.13 Raizen,S.Learning and work:The research base.Presented aft a conferenceorganised by the United States Department of Education and the OECD onLinkages in Vocational-Technical Education and Training:Challenges-Re-sponses -Actors:Phoenix,Arizona,1991. 14 See footnote 9 above. 15 Wolf,A.and Silver,R.Work Based Learning.Trainee Assessment bySupervisors Research and Development Report No.33.Sheflield;ManpowerServices Commission,1986. 16 Williams,B.(Chair)Reviewofthe Discipline ofEngineering.Vol.1 Reportand Recommendations.Canberra:Australian Government Publishing Sery.ice,1988. 17 An example of the influence ofBritish conceptions of the structure of workand the organisation of education upon the development ofTAFEin Australiacan be found in Mandelson,LA.Norman Selfe and the beginnings oftechnical education.in Turney,C.(Ed.)Piongers of Australian Education.Volume 2:Studies inthe Development of Education in the Australian Colonies1850-1900.Sydney:Sydney University Press,1972.For comment on workorganisation in early Australia see Buckley,K.and Wheelwright,T.NoParadise for Workers:Capitalism and the Common People inAstralia 1788-1944.Melbourne:Oxford University Press,1988.18 Braverman,H.Labor and Monopoly Capital:The Degradation of Workinthe Twentieth Century.New York:Monthly Review Press,1974.19 Australia's feminist witers have nade sone significant contributions toour understanding of the social construction of the nature of skill.ExamplesincludeO'Donnell,C.The Basis ofthe Bargain:Gender,Schooling and Jobs.Sydney:George Allen &Unwin,1984 and Pocock,B.Demanding Skill.Sydney:Allen&Unwin,1988.Buckley and Wheelwrightop cit shed light onstruggies over skill definitions and skill monopolies in

FAQs

What does the text criticize about the Green and White Papers?

It criticizes the sections on university and college management as amateurish.

What role did DEET staff have according to the text?

The minister gave DEET power to tell some universities and institutes what their decision and management systems should become.

How does the text describe the change in vice chancellors over time?

It contrasts a traditional vice chancellor as a gentleman amateur administrator with the emergence of a professional/managerial vice chancellor, described through several vivid labels.

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