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Higher Education and the Student: From welfare state to neoliberalism book cover

1st Edition

Higher Education and the Student From welfare state to neoliberalism

By Robert Troschitz Copyright 2017
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge
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As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system over the last decades. Universities have increasingly been required to act like businesses, and students are frequently referred to as customers nowadays. Higher Education and the Student investigates precisely this relation between the... Read more

1 Introduction 2 Theorising Higher Education Part One: Higher Education for Post-War Britain 3 Setting the Scene 4 National Needs and the Provision of Manpower 5 The Idea of the University 6 The Student Voice Part Two: Breaking the Ivory Tower  7 Higher Education and the Welfare State 8 Barbarians at the Gates  9 New Institutions for New Students?  10 The 1960s Student Protests Part Three: Marketisation and the Student as Customer 11 Thatcherism and New Public Management  12 Towards the Learning Society  13 Higher Education and the Third Way  14 The Triumph of the Market  15 Neoliberal Governmentality and the Student  Part Four: Beyond the Customer and Neoliberal Higher Education 16 Looking Forward to the Past  17 Contesting the Customer  18 Towards the Future  19 The 2010 Student Protests  20 Conclusion

Biography

Robert Troschitz currently works at Dresden University of Technology.

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