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ATEM NSW/ACT
REGIONAL CONFERENCE
HIGHER EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA –
A VICE-CHANCELLOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Ross Milbourne
Vice-Chancellor
University of Technology, Sydney
July 2008
0.53
0.65
0.40
0.20
0.00
0.75
0.90
0.90
0.91
Czech Republic
Spain
Turkey
1.10
1.12
1.13
1.14
Poland
Austria
1.40
1.28
1.60
1.44
1.50
1.74
1.75
Denmark
1.80
Finland
Sweden
1.44
Norway
1.39
Switzerland
Greece
Canada
1.09
France
1.05
Belgium
1.20
Iceland
OECD Average
1.01
United States
0.95
0.99
Netherlands
0.94
Germany
0.88
Ireland
0.87
Mexico
0.79
0.87
New Zealand
1.00
Hungary
Portugal
0.73
United Kingdom
0.80
Australia
Italy
0.49
Japan
0.60
Korea
% of GDP
Govt Direct Expenditure on tertiary education (% of GDP, 2004)
2.00
Universities current regulation control:
The same regulation applied to the airline
industry would mean control of:
The number of universities
The number of companies
The location of universities’ operations
(campuses)
The routes of each airline
Courses and cluster loads (by
negotiation)
The number of seats on each flight by
class of travel
Prices of courses
Price of tickets