
Speaking of Universities
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In Speaking of Universities, historian and critic Stefan Collini analyses these changes and challenges the assumptions of policy-makers and commentators. Does "marketisation" threaten to destroy what we most value about education; does this new era of "accountability" distort what it purports to measure; and who does the modern university "belong to"? Responding to recent policies and their underlying ideology, the book is a call to "focus on what is actually happening and the cliches behind which it hides; an incitement to think again, think more clearly, and then to press for something better".
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- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Hand-wringing for Beginners
- Part I: Analyses
- Chapter 1: What's Happening to Universities? Historical and Comparative Perspectives
- Chapter 2: Measuring Up: Universities and 'Accountability'
- Chapter 3: Reading the Ruins: Criticism and 'the Idea of the University'
- Part II: Critiques
- Chapter 4: From Robbins to McKinsey: The Changing Policy Framework
- Chapter 5: Sold Out: Privatizing Higher Education
- Chapter 6: Higher Purchase: The Student as Consumer
- Part III: Occasions
- Chapter 7: The 'English Problem' and the Scottish Solution
- Chapter 8: Public Higher Education: An Undefensive Defence
- Chapter 9: Speaking Out: Strategies and Their Publics
- Chapter 10: The Future of the Humanities
- Chapter 11: Who Does the University Belong To?
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix: Short Work
- Notes
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