Higher Education and the Common Good

AvSimon Marginson

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

353 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

Inbunden

532 kr

Beskrivning

In the last half century higher education has moved from the fringe to the centre of society and accumulated a long list of social functions. In the English-speaking world, Europe and much of East Asia more than two thirds of all school students enter tertiary education. Bulging at the seams, universities are fountains of new knowledge, engines of prosperity and innovation, drivers of regional growth, skilled migration and global competitiveness, and makers of equality of opportunity. Yet they can do little to stop growing income inequality, and in the English-speaking countries, government rhetoric and policy economics have narrowed their purpose to that of sorting careers for the middle class, partly to justify the rise in tuition fees. Higher education systems have become more competitive and stratified, with value more concentrated at the top, and the collective public benefits of universities are underplayed and underfunded. In short, governments expect both too much and too little of higher education, and its contribution to the common good is being eroded. Yet universities are much much more than factories for graduate earnings. Higher Education and the Common Good argues that this sector has a key role in rebuilding social solidarity and mobility in fractured societies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-19
Mått:142 x 212 x 18 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Melbourne University Press
ISBN:9780522871098

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education at University College London in the UK. He is Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. From 2006-2013 he was Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He works primarily on higher education and globalization, and higher education and social inequality. Hie most recent book is The Dream is Over: The crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of higher education (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2016).

Recensioner i media

This data-informed study, widely referencing key scholarship as it covers the historically sociology of higher education, its political economy, and its positional competition and the common good, and informed by Marginson's native Australia.' - The Times Higher Education

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter - 1: Great ExpectationsChapter - 2: High participation and social inclusionChapter - 3: Anglo-American higher education and inequalityChapter - 4: Public and private goods in higher educationChapter - 5: Public goods and public goodChapter - 6: Limits of human capital theoryChapter - 7: Limits of capitalist markets in higher educationChapter - 8: Limits of global university makingChapter - 9: Diversity, stratification and equityChapter - 10: The case of AustraliaChapter - 11: Conclusion