Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education
This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell education and research in a competitive market. This engaging and provocative book argues that this is not actually the case. Drawing on lived experience, Watts asserts that the reality is actually a consequence of contradictory government policy and new public management whose exponents talk and act 'as-if' universities have become businesses. T…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-53599-3
- EAN: 9781137535993
- Produktnummer: 22031074
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 359 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'379 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Rob Watts is Professor of Social Policy at RMIT University, Australia. His books include The Foundations of the National Welfare State, Sociology Australia, and States of Violence and the Civilising Process: On Criminology and State Crime.
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