Who are Universities For? - Re-making Higher Education (Paperback)

The university system is no longer fit for purpose. UK higher education was designed for much smaller numbers of students and a very different labour market. Students display worrying levels of mental health issues, exacerbated by unprecedented levels of debt, and the dubious privilege of competing for poorly-paid graduate internships. Meanwhile who goes to university is still too often determined by place of birth, gender, class or ethnicity. Who are universities for? argues for a large-scale shake up of how we organise higher education, how we combine it with work, and how it fits into our lives. It includes radical proposals for reform of the curriculum and how we admit students to higher education, with part-time study (currently in crisis in England) becoming the norm. A short, polemical but also deeply practical book, Who are universities for? offers concrete solutions to the problems facing UK higher education and a way forward for universities to become more inclusive and more responsive to local and global challenges.

General

Imprint:	Bristol University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Tom Sperlinger • Josie McLellan • Richard Pettigrew
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-5292-0038-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics Promotions
LSN:	1-5292-0038-5
Barcode:	9781529200386

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