Universities

Author : Stefan Collini
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780141970370

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What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini Pdf

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.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215540727

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Students and universities by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee Pdf

Incorporating HC 370

Author : Harvey P. Weingarten
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 9781487509446

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Nothing Less Than Great by Harvey P. Weingarten Pdf

Nothing Less than Great addresses the current challenges faced by Canada's university system and offers solutions to help improve the academic experience of students.

Author : Shahid Yusuf,Kaoru Nabeshima
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780821367520

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How Universities Promote Economic Growth by Shahid Yusuf,Kaoru Nabeshima Pdf

With the competitiveness of firms in an open and integrated world environment increasingly reliant on technological capability, universities are being asked to take on a growing role in stimulating economic growth. Beyond imparting education, they are now viewed as sources of industrially valuable technical skills, innovations, and entrepreneurship. Developed and developing countries alike have made it a priority to realize this potential of universities to spur growth, a strategy that calls for coordinated policy actions.

Author : Jamie Brownlee
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552667521

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Academia Inc. by Jamie Brownlee Pdf

Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system. Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions — the university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the history, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book explores how this transformation has taken shape and its ramifications for both universities and society as a whole. Brownlee suggests several strategies for resisting this process.

Author : Anders Broström,Lars Geschwind,Katarina Larsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : 9783030505554

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Technical Universities by Anders Broström,Lars Geschwind,Katarina Larsen Pdf

This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and dimensioning of national higher education systems, to changes in the disciplinary basis of academic research and to changes in the governance of higher education institutions. Introduced in the age of industrialization, polytechnical schools rose to prominence in many national settings during the second half of the 19th century. Over time, new technologies have been developed and incorporated into the repertoire, and waves of academisation have swept over the former polytechnics, transforming them into technical universities. Their traditions and brands, however, prevail. Several technical universities are included among the most prestigious academic institutions of their nations and the training of engineers and engineering research still enjoys a high level of prestige and national priority, e.g. in the context of innovation and industrial policy. But the world keeps changing, and the higher education sector with it. Will technical universities have an equally attractive position within university systems in the decades to come? .--

Author : Michael Shattock,Aniko Horvath
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350337602

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Universities and Regions by Michael Shattock,Aniko Horvath Pdf

This book explores the impact of localities and regions on universities and shows how the diversity of the higher education landscape is critically affected by the geophysical character of regions and their differentiated economies and cultures; regional inequalities bear heavily on universities' strategy-making. A study of the interrelationship between higher and further education argues that from a regional perspective a change to a tertiary education system in England (following Wales) would create the conditions for better local and regional coordination. Universities make a significant contribution to 'levelling up' through technology transfer and the creation of innovation hubs but the contribution of locally or regionally based students who on graduation return to disadvantaged communities rather than seek employment elsewhere should be recognised also as a longer term step to redressing regional inequality. The book argues strongly that the time has come to decentralise the governance of a re-aligned tertiary system to regions and identifies the move to create metro mayors and combined authorities as providing the appropriate vehicle to release new initiative from regional sources. It cites the success of decentralisation to Scotland and Wales as offering relevant models for scrutiny. The authors draw on 12 UK widely differentiated university case studies, a survey of further education and a study of three continental European comparators (Germany, Ireland and Norway) to develop the argument.

Author : Miles Taylor,Jill Pellew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350138643

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Utopian Universities by Miles Taylor,Jill Pellew Pdf

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.

Author : John Daniel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136354366

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Mega-universities and Knowledge Media by John Daniel Pdf

A discussion of how the knowledge media can contribute to the renewal of universities, particularly through the development of distance education. It looks at universities which have risen to the challenges of cost and accessibility using technology.

Author : Hans de Wit,Andrés Bernasconi,Visnja Car,Fiona Hunter,Michael James,Daniela Véliz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004382091

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Identity and Internationalization in Catholic Universities by Hans de Wit,Andrés Bernasconi,Visnja Car,Fiona Hunter,Michael James,Daniela Véliz Pdf

Identity and Internationalization in Catholic Universities explores the relationship between Catholic identity, mission (with special emphasis on Jesuit and La Salle universities), and internationalization in Catholic universities of different types and located in different contexts: Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780191538124

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History of Universities by Mordechai Feingold Pdf

Volume XXI/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

Author : Ana Simões,Maria Paula Diogo,Kostas Gavroglu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401796361

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Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Ana Simões,Maria Paula Diogo,Kostas Gavroglu Pdf

This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the institutionalization of science teaching and research. A useful book for understanding the deep changes that universities were undergoing in the last years of the 20th century. The book is organized around four central themes: 1) Universities in the longue durée; 2) Universities in diverse political contexts; 3) Universities and academic research; 4) Universities and discipline formation. The book is addressed at a broad readership which includes scholars and researchers in the field of General History, Cultural History, History of Universities, History of Education, History of Science and Technology, Science Policy, high school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students of sciences and humanities, and the general interested public.

Author : Ashby Eric
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1001518632

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communities of universities by Ashby Eric Pdf

Author : National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39076006311042

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Resources for Scientific Activities at Universities and Colleges, 1969 by National Science Foundation (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Michael Beloff
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Education
ISBN : 0838675506

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The Plateglass Universities by Michael Beloff Pdf