Higher education and the student: from welfare state to neoliberalism

"As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system in recent decades. What was once a public good has turned into a market in which universities are required to perform like businesses, with s...

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Main Author: Troschitz, Robert 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge 2017
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system in recent decades. What was once a public good has turned into a market in which universities are required to perform like businesses, with students being increasingly referred to as customers. The Idea of Higher Education and the Student investigates precisely this relation between the changing function of higher education and how we see the student. But instead of offering yet another critique of neoliberalism and marketisation, it widens the view beyond the present" ...
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Physical Description:vi, 236 Seiten
ISBN:9781138213500

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