What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic,
consumerist and privatized society? The global financial crisis of
2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded
over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and
commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This
book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the
financial crisis for higher education and the lessons to be learnt
from that crisis and its aftermath for the university sector as a
whole. Jon Nixon argues that the university now has to be
re-imagined as a social, civic and cosmopolitan good that is
central to the well-being of civil society and its citizens. Key
chapters focus on capability, reasoning and purposefulness as the
common resources of higher education. There is an urgent need for
sector-wide planning and collaboration, the development of a public
culture across institutions, and a broadening of the higher
education curriculum. Higher Education and the Public Good points a
way forward to the new and emergent civic and cosmopolitan spaces
of learning.
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