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Dr Gwilym Croucher
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education; Principal Policy Adviser, Chancellery; University of Melbourne
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Education
How Australia got so many law schools
Australia’s large number of law schools is a product of higher education policy change in the 1980s, but has it limited opportunities for growth?
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Politics & Society
Opinion
Are universities part of the populism problem?
Universities are drivers of educated debate, so with democracy in crisis amid rising populism and inequality, what have they been doing?
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Business & Economics
Challenging times for Australian democracy
Problems abound, but the foundations remain rock solid