- Title
- A child of change: the establishment of the Open Foundation Programme in 1974
- Creator
- May, Jo
- Relation
- History of Education Review Vol. 34, Issue 1, p. 51-62
- Relation
- http://www.her-anzhes.co.nz/34_1.html#may
- Publisher
- Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- The Open Foundation is a tertiary access programme for mature age students. It was established at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1974. Today the Open Foundation is one of the oldest and largest access programmes in Australia with over a thousand students each year. While there have been some educational, mainly quantitative studies about the programme, there have been none from an historical perspective. The article explores the layers of context for the establishment of the Open Foundation in the early 1970s. Why, when the University of Newcastle already provided the means for mature entry, did it seek to widen participation for adults at that time? The article concludes that the establishment of the Open Foundation reflected changing ideas about the role of the university in society and the value and use of knowledge in communities, epitomised in the early 1970s by the establishment of the Open University in the United Kingdom. The lineage of the Open Foundation at the University of Newcastle can be traced almost directly to the Open University half a world away.
- Subject
- continuing education; educational history; Open Foundation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27411
- Identifier
- uon:1644
- Identifier
- ISSN:0819-8691
- Language
- eng
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