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 \n● the introduction of the user-paysfinancing principle,including tertiarytuition fees and student loans;the establishment of private and semi-private universities and colleges;and鲁the deregulation of the academiclabour market.1  \nMarket modes of delivering education  \nservices operate in a quite different man-  \nner and with profoundly different social  \nand economic consequences.Market bas-  \ned systems,by their natnre,seek to max-  \nimise the return on capital and labour in-  \nvested and therefore tend to skew  \nresource allocation to areas which  \nThis paper critically examines market  \ngenerate the highest rate of return.De-  \nmodes of higher education service  \ndelivery,and the deregulatory impetus in  \nmand and resource allocation are ex-  \nthe Australian higher education system.  \nclusively mediated by the price  \nAn account of relevant recent develop-  \nmechanism and the operation of market  \nments and proposals is given.Finally,an  \nsignals.Some neo-conservative theorists  \nalternative view to the privatisation prin-  \nhave developed elaborate free-market  \nciple is presented,which includes a  \nmodels for higher education service  \ndefence of the public sector role in higher  \ndelivery,in which market signals and  \neducation and a means to limit and con-  \ntransaction pricing have actual respon-  \ntrol the undesirable effects of the educa-  \nsibility for determining both demand and  \ntion export policy.  \nresource allocation.2 The assumption is  \nthat the market mechanism is neutral and  \n## 2.General principles\n\nthat individual needs are adequately  \nThe Australian higher education system  \nreflected in the market by price  \ninformation.³  \nis a planned non-market system,and is  \nThis perspective is flawed as it takes no  \nconsequently an output maximiser subject  \naccount o the unequal relations inherent  \nonly to budgetary and quality constraints.  \nin the market.The market will tend to  \nThe planning of higher education  \nproduce social and educational ontcomes  \ntherefore occurs principally through a  \nwhich reward those consumers(students)  \nprocess of public and open debate.Such  \nand those producers(higher education in-  \ndebate provides a guide on how quality is  \nstitutions)with the greatest market  \ndefined,on what the output of the system  \npower.These are most likely to be poten-  \nshould be,and on what budgetary  \ntial domestic or overseas students with  \nrestraints apply to its operation.Goals are  \nPage 18 Australian Universities'Review,No.2,1987  \nWyn,Shaping Futures,Allen &Unwin,Sydney,1987;C.McCarty&J.Ratley,Ac-ing Together,Wattle Park Teachers'Association,Ade","cbCaillPcKFR0rQZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaillPcKFR0rQZ","pdf",548906,"English","# Introduction\n## 2. 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