Universities are said to be the 'powerhouses' of modern society.
They educate leaders and advance our basic knowledge of nature and
society. Yet historically they have been vulnerable when meeting
the challenges of dynamic industrial democracies or indeed of
modern totalitarian states. Today universities are at the centre of
society's attention and must therefore balance a great number of
contradictory demands and pressures. Can this be done within the
structure and ethos of an historic institution called a
'university', or are such institutions now passe and merely part of
a bureaucratically managed higher education 'system'? These essays
discuss the ways in which universities have coped with complexity
since 1800, while retaining their basic 'idea'. Special attention
is accorded to the role of the State and the autonomous professions
in defining the mission of universities and in their struggle for
individuality in the face of mounting pluralistic and bureaucratic
pressures.
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