Abstract
This article identifies and explains significant features of the transformation of the Western Australian Institute of Technology into the Curtin University of Technology, which occurred in 1986. The event achieved test case status in challenging rigities of the binary system of higher education in Australia, although pressures to reform the system had been mounting for some years. Changes at WAIT, involving the emergence of substantial research programs in a college of advanced education, clashes with government policy towards the binary system and the enrolment of feepaying overseas students, and the status of major technological institutes, present in microcosm an insight into the circumstances leading to far‐reaching reforms to Australian higher education introduced in 1987.
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