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2 - The expansion of education to 1975

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Simon Marginson
Simon Marginson
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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‘This is going to be an education program. We are going to eliminate poverty by education, and I don't want anybody to mention income distribution. This is not going to be a handout, this is going to be something where people are going to learn their way out of poverty.’

Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States, launching the Federal Government's Headstart program in schools, 1965 (OECD 1981b, p. 2).

Prelude: The Martin report (1964)

On 27 August 1964 the Minister-in-Charge of Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research, Senator John Gorton (later Prime Minister 1968–1971) received the report of the Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia, known as the Martin report after the chair Sir Leslie Martin. The report declared that ‘public interest in, and government support for, higher education have greatly increased during the last decade. The climate of opinion favours further expansion.’ Higher education should be available to all citizens according to their needs and capacities. Not only would this enable individual aspirations to be fulfilled, ‘the factors which determine national survival in the modern world require the Australian community to provide talented young people with opportunities to develop their innate abilities to the maximum’.

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Educating Australia
Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960
 , pp. 11 - 45
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1997

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