Article: Postgraduate training in the social sciences: knowledge, engagement, vocation.

The second half of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of universal primary education in the Australian colonies, though it largely excluded the Indigenous people marginalised by the settler-states. After federation in 1901 the construction of secondary education was slowed during the first world war and the depression of the 1930s. It was not until the 1950s, after another world war, that state systems of universal secondary education were consolidated and students began to complete school in large numbers. After that, the pace of educational development quickened, and the next two decades saw the rapid growth of undergraduate higher education. Student numbers ...

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