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The universities we need : higher education after Dearing

Nigel Blake, Richard Smith, Paul Standish

Kogan Page, 1998

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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