Speaking of Universities

Speaking of Universities

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  • Author: Stefan Collini
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • ISBN: 1786631415
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 321

In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalisation forces institutions to consider a new economic horizon. At the same time governments have systematically imposed new procedures regulating funding, governance, and assessment. Universities are being forced to behave more like business enterprises in a commercial marketplace than centres of learning. In Speaking of Universities, historian and critic Stefan Collini analyses these changes and challenges the assumptions of policy-makers and commentators. Does "marketisation" threaten to destroy what we most value about education; does this new era of "accountability" distort what it purports to measure; and who does the modern university "belong to"? Responding to recent policies and their underlying ideology, the book is a call to "focus on what is actually happening and the cliches behind which it hides; an incitement to think again, think more clearly, and then to press for something better".


Speaking of the University

Speaking of the University

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  • Author: Alexander Heard
  • Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
  • ISBN: 9780826512659
  • Category : Electronic journals
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 404

A retrospective on the nature of university governance and leadership in a crucial era, by a signal spokesman for higher education in our times.


Speaking of Universities

Speaking of Universities

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  • Author: Stefan Collini
  • Publisher: National Geographic Books
  • ISBN: 1786631652
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

A devastating analysis of what is happening to our academia In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalization forces institutions to consider a new economic horizon. At the same time governments have systematically imposed new procedures regulating funding, governance, and assessment. Universities are being forced to behave more like business enterprises in a commercial marketplace than centres of learning. In Speaking of Universities, historian and critic Stefan Collini analyses these changes and challenges the assumptions of policy-makers and commentators. He asks: does “marketization” threaten to destroy what we most value about education; does this new era of “accountability” distort what it purports to measure; and who does the modern university belong to? Responding to recent policies and their underlying ideology, the book is a call to “focus on what is actually happening and the clichés behind which it hides; an incitement to think again, think more clearly, and then to press for something better.”


What are Universities For?

What are Universities For?

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  • Author: Stefan Collini
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 0141970375
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities, and why we need them. Stefan Collini challenges the common claim that universities need to show that they help to make money in order to justify getting more money. Instead, he argues that we must reflect on the different types of institution and the distinctive roles they play. In particular we must recognize that attempting to extend human understanding, which is at the heart of disciplined intellectual enquiry, can never be wholly harnessed to immediate social purposes - particularly in the case of the humanities, which both attract and puzzle many people and are therefore the most difficult subjects to justify. At a time when the future of higher education lies in the balance, What Are Universities For? offers all of us a better, deeper and more enlightened understanding of why universities matter, to everyone.


SPEAKING CORNER GENERAL BASIC COURSE : ENGLISH 1 For University And English Course STUDENT BOOK

SPEAKING CORNER GENERAL BASIC COURSE : ENGLISH 1 For University And English Course STUDENT BOOK

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  • Author: Hamzar, S.Pd., M.Pd.
  • Publisher: Penerbit CV. SARNU UNTUNG
  • ISBN: 6235497598
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

This book contains a complete and clear table of contents with scope and sequence which can be cast a glance and will guide the teachers as well as the students clearly and quickly about the main target of materials every meeting. It comprises sixteen units. Each unit covers integrated main skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and it also includes integrated subskills like the basic and systematic grammar presentations with quizzes, pronunciation guides and practices, vocabulary expansion with pictures and non-pictures intended for the language learners who are fond of improving their speaking performance in real-life settings in accuracy, fluency, and comprehensibility way as the main purpose.


The Rise and Early Constitution of Universities

The Rise and Early Constitution of Universities

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  • Author: Simon Somerville Laurie
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352


Utopian Universities

Utopian Universities

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  • Author: Miles Taylor
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350138649
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 424

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds light on the social and cultural topography of the long 1960s. With an impressive geographic coverage - using case studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia - the book explores how these universities have influenced academic disciplines and pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience. From educational reform in West Germany to the establishment of new institutions with progressive, interdisciplinary curricula in the Commonwealth, the illuminating case studies of this volume demonstrate how these universities shared in a common cause: the embodiment of 'utopian' ideals of living, learning and governance. At a time when the role of higher education is fiercely debated, Utopian Universities is a timely and considered intervention that offers a wide-ranging, historical dimension to contemporary predicaments.


Higher schools and universities in Germany

Higher schools and universities in Germany

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  • Author: Matthew Arnold
  • Publisher:
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 448


Sociological Re-Imaginations in & of Universities

Sociological Re-Imaginations in & of Universities

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  • Author: Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
  • Publisher: Ahead Publishing House (imprint: Okcir Press)
  • ISBN: 1888024534
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

This Summer 2009 (VII, 3) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, is devoted to the theme “Sociological Re-Imaginations in & of Universities.” As part of the journal’s continuing series critically engaging with C. Wright Mills’ “sociological imagination,” i.e., the proposition that the best way to theorize and practice sociology is via a continual conversation between the study of one’s personal troubles and that of broader public issues, the present issue turns its attention to fostering sociological re-imaginations in and of universities. Several faculty, recent graduates or alumni, and current undergraduate students advance insightful, critical perspectives about their own learning and teaching experiences and personal “troubles,” and broader university, disciplinary, and administrative “public issues” that in their view merit immediate attention in favor of fundamental rectifications of outdated procedures and educational habita that continue to persist at the cost of more creative, and in fact more scientific and rational, approaches to production and dissemination of knowledge. Contributors include: Satoshi Ikeda, Sandra J. Song, L. Lynda Harling Stalker, Jason Pridmore, Festus Ikeotuonye, Samuel Zalanga, Donald A. Nielsen, Anne Bubriski, Penelope Roode, Belle Summer, E. M. Walsh, Ann Marie Moler, Minxing Zheng, Andrew Messing, Jillian Pelletier, Christine Quinn, Trevor Doherty, Lisa Kemmerer, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.


The Privileges of the University of Cambridge

The Privileges of the University of Cambridge

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  • Author: George Dyer
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Universities and colleges
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 662