The Universities We Need: Higher Education After Dearing

by Nigel Blake, Richard Smith, Paul Standish

Overview

This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community. It reconsiders the demand for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135369811
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	358 KB

About the Author

Nigel Blake, Richard Smith, Paul Standish

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reading Dearing; Chapter 1 Tuition Fees, Stakeholding and Citizenship; Chapter 2 What We Teach and What Students Learn; Chapter 3 Aims, Purposes and Principles; Chapter 4 The Normalization of Research; Chapter 5 Learning Together; Chapter 6 The Regional and Community Role of Universities; Chapter 7 The Management of Learning; Chapter 8 Economic Success – How the Ufl Will Undermine the Universities’ Contribution; Chapter 9 A Music Discourse;