1st Edition

The Universities We Need Higher Education After Dearing

    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    Nigel Blake, Richard Smith, Paul Standish