ABSTRACT

COVID-19 has significantly impacted Australia’s attractiveness as an international study destination and affected public university budgets, which have increasingly relied on attracting international students through business education. The notion of business schools as an onshore export business has long been a constraint to business schools’ claims of public legitimacy. COVID-19 has effectively removed the ‘cash cow’ status, meaning business schools must turn to other sources of support and legitimacy to secure their future. A Delphi of expert panel members was conducted to determine how this and other key drivers of change will impact business education in Australia over the next 10 years. It is clear from the findings that public business education is now irrevocably changed and that, without dramatic shifts in policy and strategy, it will confront even more significant challenges to its legitimacy into the future.

摘要

COVID-19 严重影响了澳大利亚作为国际学习目的地的吸引力，并影响了越来越依赖通过商业教育吸引国际学生的公立大学预算。长期以来，商学院作为在岸出口业务的概念一直限制着商学院声称具有公共合法性。COVID-19 有效地消除了“摇钱树”的地位，这意味着商学院必须转向其他支持和合法性来源来确保他们的未来。专家小组成员组成的德尔福 (Delphi) 旨在确定这一变化和其他主要变革驱动因素将如何影响澳大利亚未来 10 年的商业教育。从调查结果中可以清楚地看出，公共商业教育现在已经不可逆转地改变了，而且政策和战略没有发生巨大变化，