Crossing Cultural Borders in the Epoch of Globalism. Some Interactive Paths in Australia

The paper analyses the problem of ethnicity with respect to globalising processes ongoing in contemporary societies. The author puts forward a thesis that there is an influence of global interculturalism that transcends national ties and crossing over cultural borders. The course of these phenomena is analysed within the context of the circumstances of the Australian state. A particular stress is laid on the issue of building a multicultural nation by the multiethnic society of Australia. This multicultural nation is a new value. At the same time the paper depicts achievements and failures in the multicultural policy assumed and carried out in this country

Privatisation in higher education: an emerging commonality in an age of multiplemodernities

Under the impact of globalising market forces, public funding to higher education systems in many parts of the world has been reduced on a per capita basis, even as student enrolments continue to increase. Paralleling this phenomenon has been rapid privatisation of the university sector, achieved through the transfer of costs to the community, either through state universities imposing student fees or new private institutions being established. The paper analyses the course of privatisation in the higher education systems of Poland, Iran, Australia and the Philippines and concludes that the various privatisation pathways being followed are reflective of the differing national traditions of the countries concerned

Multiculturalism as an overarching framework of values for cultural diversity - the Australian experience and its educational implications

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3528554

Border identities: nation and state at international frontiers

J. J. Smolic