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What are universities for? / Stefan Collini.
Record no.:
4793
Author:
Collini, Stefan, 1947-;
Publisher:
London :: Penguin,
Year:
2012.
Description:
xii, 215 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject:
Universities and colleges - Great Britain.;
Education, Higher - Philosophy - Great Britain.;
Education.;
Higher education and state.;
Education, Higher - Aims and objectives.;
Universities and colleges - Philosophy.;
Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - Great Britain.;
Notes:
Nagle Library copy ex dono Adrian Diethelm, Rector.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
9781846144820 (pbk.) 1846144825 (pbk.);
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- 1.The Global Multiversity? -- 2.Universities in Britain: A Very Short History -- 3.The Useful and the Useless: Newman Revisited -- 4.The Character of the Humanities -- 5.The Highest Aspirations and Ideals:
Universities as a Public Good -- PART TWO -- Prologue: Occasions for Advocacy -- 6.Bibliometry -- 7.The Business Analogy -- 8.HiEdBizUK -- 9.Impact -- 10.Browne's Gamble.

This book presents an argument for rethinking the way we see these institutions, and why we need them.
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