Andrew Norton

Andrew specialises in Higher Education and is the author of The Unchained University (CIS, 2002), which sets out the case for a more market-driven higher education system. Andrew has also written widely on classical liberalism and on liberal and conservative political movements in Australia.

He has also written extensively on public opinion, including attitudes to taxation, industrial relations, protection, race, and climate change. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and has written numerous CIS Issue Analysis papers.

Andrew worked at the CIS between the years of 1994 – 2011 with a break in the late 1990s, when he was Higher Education Adviser to Dr David Kemp, Federal Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs.

Andrew also has a personal website http://andrewnorton.info Please note that the views expressed on his website are not necessarily endorsed by the CIS.

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The Unchained University
Andrew NortonNovember 19, 2002PM56

Australia’s universities are not preparing students adequately for their futures. Report author and higher education...

Degrees of Difficulty: The Labour Market Problems of Arts and Social Science Graduates
Andrew NortonJuly 19, 2000IA12

That the Australian higher education system is comprehensively rigged against students is evident from the...

Social Capital Stories: How 12 Australian Households Live their Lives
Martin Stewart-Weeks, Andrew Norton, Mark Latham, Gary SturgessApril 5, 1999PM42

Social capital – the network of informal social connections that helps to hold communities together...

Social Capital: The Individual, Civil Society and the State
Andrew Norton, Mark Latham, Gary Sturgess, Martin Stewart-WeeksDecember 1, 1997PF14

In a remarkable instance of intellectual convergence, the concept of ‘social capital’ has recently attracted...

Shaping the Social Virtues
Andrew Norton, Barry MaleyOctober 1, 1994PM28

This is a collection of three essays by David Popenoe, Andrew Norton and Barry Maley...

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