Death of the Public University? : : Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy / / ed. by Susan Wright, Cris Shore.
Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue ‘excellence’ and ‘innovation’, many universities are str...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations, Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives
- PART I Redefining the Mission and Meaning of the University
- CHAPTER 1 Universities in Britain and the Spirit of ’45
- CHAPTER 2 Managing the Third Mission: Reform or Reinvention of the Public University?
- CHAPTER 3 Universities in the Competition State: Lessons from Denmark
- CHAPTER 4 Leadership in Higher Education A Critical Feminist Perspective on Global Restructuring
- PART II Performing the New University – New Priorities, New Subjects
- CHAPTER 5 Science/ Industry Collaboration: Bugs, Project Barons and Managing Symbiosis
- CHAPTER 6 On Delivering the Consumer-Citizen: New Pedagogies and Their Affective Economies
- CHAPTER 7 Tuning Up and Tuning In: How the European Bologna Process Is Influencing Students’ Time of Study
- PART III Managing the Risk University – Research, Ranking and Reputation
- CHAPTER 8 The Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of Reputational Risk Management of Universities and the Higher Education Sector
- CHAPTER 9 The Rise and Rise of the Performance-Based Research Fund?
- CHAPTER 10 Evaluating Academic Research: Ambivalence, Anxiety and Audit in the Risk University
- CHAPTER 11 The Ethics of University Ethics Committees: Risk Management and the Research Imagination
- PART IV Reviving the Public University - Alternative Visions
- CHAPTER 12 Who Will Win the Global Hunger Games? The Emerging Significance of Research Universities in the International Relations of States
- CHAPTER 13 Resistance in the Neoliberal University
- CHAPTER 14 The University as a Place of Possibilities: Scholarship as Dissensus
- CHAPTER 15 Crisis, Critique and the Contemporary University: Reinventing the Future
- Index