This chapter explores the role of the modern university, focusing on the usually neglected
areas of the arts and humanities, both as hubs of creativity and innovation and as crucial …

There is a growing number of critics who claim that modern changes of the university, based
on the market fundamentalism and performance management paradigm, undermine the …

This article has two aims. First it highlights and affirms what is already known about the
disposition of several western nation states towards a global education marketplace (Singh …

Within the context of the Bologna Process, how can and should the European university
address the challenges that are arising from the changing demands of today's socially …

The paper outlines the development of education in Malaysia with reference to the history of
ideas. It draws ideas and ideals regarding knowledge and education from the diverse …

This paper defends the idea that universities manufacture knowledge as a public good
through the “creative destruction” of social capital. The idea is presented as contemporary …

Beyond knowledge, critical thinking, new ideas, rigorous science and scholarly
development, this chapter argues for the university as a space of life. Through the …

Universities began their academic activity as elite institutions, building science and teaching
that knowledge to a specific audience drawn from the higher social prestige classes …

The article identifies, comparatively, the crisis of the contemporary university as both
government policies, in several countries, and the post-modern critique, notably Lyotard's …

I was a child of Beveridge1, of the British post-War welfare state, of free milk and orange
juice, of NHS dentistry. I am now a neo-liberal academic working for a global HE brand …