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The Australian colleges of advanced education have been developed since the mid-1960s mainly on the initiative of the federal government with the aim of creating a separate sector of higher education parallel to the universities. They illustrate well what has been referred to in the literature as academic drift, a process whereby non-university institutions aspire to become more like universities. Academics in the colleges of advanced education have contributed to the process of upward drift. Academic drift in turn has produced important changes on some key characteristics of college academics.
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Harman, G. Academic staff and academic drift in Australian colleges of advanced education. High Educ 6, 313–335 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00141371
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