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Speaking of Universities (Paperback)
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In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the
numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there
are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to
nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of
learning and teaching. Globalisation forces institutions to
consider a new economic horizon. At the same time governments have
systematically imposed new procedures regulating funding,
governance, and assessment. Universities are being forced to behave
more like business enterprises in a commercial marketplace than
centres of learning. In Speaking of Universities, historian and
critic Stefan Collini analyses these changes and challenges the
assumptions of policy-makers and commentators. Does "marketisation"
threaten to destroy what we most value about education; does this
new era of "accountability" distort what it purports to measure;
and who does the modern university "belong to"? Responding to
recent policies and their underlying ideology, the book is a call
to "focus on what is actually happening and the cliches behind
which it hides; an incitement to think again, think more clearly,
and then to press for something better".
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