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Keeping public priorities in public universities

  • Written by The Conversation
imageAcademics want to conduct blue sky research, but that's not why people pay to go to university. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The main purposes of Australian public universities — teaching, research and community engagement — are well established in law and practice. But differences of opinion exist on priorities, interpretation and...

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