Overview
- Compares and contrasts the ways in which the university system has radically transformed over the years across Britain, America and Australia
- Seeks answers to the question: ‘what has happened to our universities?’
- Advances a provocative alternative argument to why universities are now percieved as businesses
- Critiques the current treatment of academics and lecturers, and highlights the long-term negative effects this will have
Part of the book series: Palgrave Critical University Studies (PCU)
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About this book
This has led to a situation where not only the normal teacher-student relationship is inverted, academic professional autonomy is eroded and many students are short-changed, but where universities are becoming places whose leaders are no longer prepared to tell the truth and too few academics are prepared to insist they do. An impassioned and methodical study, this book will be of great interest to academics and scholars in the field of higher education and education policy.
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Book Title: Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education
Authors: Rob Watts
Series Title: Palgrave Critical University Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53599-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53598-6Published: 02 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53599-3Published: 19 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-7329
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 359
Topics: Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Education Policy, Educational Philosophy, Sociology of Education, Management