Full-Fee Paying Students at Murdoch University 1985- 1991

In 1985 the Australian Government announced a
momentous policy initiative allowing Australian
universities to enrol full-fee paying international
students. This case study is an analysis of the
political and economic factors that lead to this
initiative and the policy development that ensued at
Murdoch University in Western Australia between 1985
and 1991as it responded to this opportunity to
alleviate pressing problems with finance and low
student numbers that were threatening its very
existence as an independent university. New,
streamlined procedures, and the devolution of
policy-development to small, semi-autonomous
committees, enabled the University to develop
procedures for a program for full-fee paying
international students at the beginning of 1987. The
continued success of the program was based on the
creation of an almost independent, entrepreneurial
International Office for the organisation of most
aspects of the program, including the marketing and
recruitment process.

Autorentext
Dr Colin Trestrail lives and studies in Perth in Western Australia. After a long career as a teacher and administrator in secondary education he has followed up his abiding interest in the politics of education. As well as this current study, he has completed a study of the centralization/recentralization cycle in Australian education.

Klappentext
In 1985 the Australian Government announced a momentous policy initiative allowing Australian universities to enrol full-fee paying international students. This case study is an analysis of the political and economic factors that lead to this initiative and the policy development that ensued at Murdoch University in Western Australia between 1985 and 1991as it responded to this opportunity to alleviate pressing problems with finance and low student numbers that were threatening its very existence as an independent university. New, streamlined procedures, and the devolution of policy-development to small, semi-autonomous committees, enabled the University to develop procedures for a program for full-fee paying international students at the beginning of 1987. The continued success of the program was based on the creation of an almost independent, entrepreneurial International Office for the organisation of most aspects of the program, including the marketing and recruitment process.