The Universities We Need

the long version

"In a context of international debate on Higher Education and lifelong learning, focused in the UK by the Dearing Report, this book examines the nature and purpose of university education today, and challenges many of the assumptions behind recent thinking. The authors explore the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community. Taking the reader through a range of practices characteristic of the university, the book reconsiders the demand for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability, especially with regard to their effects on curriculum and on the quality of teaching and learning. The salience of questions of funding and access is carefully reviewed." "It will be important reading for all lecturers and researchers concerned with current trends and developments, and for policy-makers, educational administrators and students of education policy and HE."--BOOK JACKET.