The Universities We Need: Higher Education After Dearing [Paperback]

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.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;Nigel Blake, Richard Smith, Paul StandishUS? Nigel Blake, Richard Smith and Paul Standish, 1998