Simon Marginson

Simon Marginson FBA FAcSS (born 1951)[1] is an Australian academic who researches higher education.

[5] His monographs published in the late 1990s are described by Helen Proctor and Claire Aitchison as the earliest descriptions of Australia's "market-oriented" governmental educational reforms.

According to a review for Higher Education by Barbara Zamorski, the book focuses on "the new kind of higher education institution now emerging" and describes features necessary for universities to successfully compete internationally.

[7] With Michael A. Peters and Peter Murphy, he wrote a series of three books on "the global knowledge economy" (2009–10), which Roger King, in a review for Higher Education, describes as "an engaging and critical account of the social, cultural, economic and cultural changes associated with the increased centrality of theoretical knowledge or ideas in the post-industrial age.

[9] He gave the Clark Kerr Lectures in 2014, the text of which was expanded into a book, The Dream is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education (University of California Press; 2016).