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higher education in Australia  \nBob Birrell & Daniel Edwards  \nMonash University & the Australian Council for Education Research  \nTheReview of Higher Education in Australia (the Bradley Review) has recommended a massive expansion in the level of domestic training in Australian universities. This article examines the Report’s rationale for rejecting the previous orthodoxy that there is no need for such expansion and, to the extent that there is, it would be better focussed on the vocational sector. It examines the scale of the enrolment expansion envisaged and critically examines the Review’s policy recommendations to achieve this increase. It concludes that there will have to be a major expansion in university campus construction in the outer suburban regions of all Australian metropolises.  \nIntroduction  \nThe Final Report of the Review of Australian Higher Education chaired by Professor Denise Bradley is a crucial milestone in the recent history of the Australian higher education sector. The Review has set the scene for a major expansion in domestic higher education training in Australia. It calls for a sharp increase in the participation rates of under-represented groups and recommends an overall target increase in enrolment which will achieve an increase in the share of 25-to 34-year-olds holding a bachelor degree or above from 29 per cent in 2006 to 40 per cent by 2020. These aspirations are well founded. Domestic higher education training was neglected throughout the economic boom since the late 1990s – at great cost to opportunity for young Australian residents.There has been a flood on new jobs in professional and related fields where university credentials are the minimum requirement, yet during this time there has been almost no growth in domestic undergraduate course completions.  \nThis paper begins with an analysis of the divergent views on the merits of expanding higher education participation. Until recently, the prevailing view amongst policy makers was that there was no need for an increase in higher education participation. To the extent there was a need for the opening up of postschool educational opportunities, the orthodox view was that it lay mainly with the vocational education sector.The Review decisively breaks with this perspective.We explore its reasoning on this issue and broadly endorse its conclusions. This is important, because if the Rudd Labor Government is not convinced by the Review’s stance on this issue, it is unlikely to support the Review’s key recommendations.  \nThe second part of the paper deals with the practical issues of achieving the Review’s recommendations on the provision of higher education opportunity.This is done in the context of calculations of the increase in enrolment levels that will be required if the targets recommended by the Review are adopted.When the projected increase in Australia’s population is taken into account, the expansion in places needed to achieve  \n4 The Bradley Review and access to higher education in Australia, Bob Birrell & Daniel Edwards vol. 51, no. 1, 2009  \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  \nthe proposed increase in participation turns out to be huge. The final parts of the paper explore the issues of how the additional students are to be attracted and where they are to be drawn from.  \nThe changing policy emphasis on higher education  \nDuring the eleven years of Coalition Government (from 1996 to 2007), successive ministers with responsibility for higher education insisted that there was no case for increased public funds to expand the sector. This was partly because they believed/hoped that any increase in domestic university training would come from young people paying full fees, but also because they were not convinced that there was a need for  \nfor workers with VET and higher education qualifications with projected supply, gi","cbCaiho5f1kO94cg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiho5f1kO94cg","pdf",588922,"English","# Introduction\n## The changing policy emphasis on higher education","[{\"question\":\"What does the Bradley Review recommend for Australian universities?\",\"answer\":\"It recommends a massive expansion in domestic training levels and a sharp increase in participation rates for under-represented groups.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper describe the earlier policy approach to higher education expansion?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that policy makers previously believed there was no need to increase higher education participation, and that needs for postschool opportunities were mainly viewed as belonging to the vocational sector.\"},{\"question\":\"What practical infrastructure implication does the paper highlight?\",\"answer\":\"It concludes that there will have to be a major expansion in university campus construction in outer suburban regions across Australian metropolises.\"}]","The Bradley Review and access to higher education in Australia - Bob Birrell & Daniel Edwards | PDF",1792081057,25]