Speaking of Universities [Audiobook] download free by Stefan Collini
- Listen audiobook: Speaking of Universities
- Author: Stefan Collini
- Release date: 2018/10/17
- Publisher: VERSO BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Teaching Resources and Education
- ISBN: 9781786631657
- Rating: 7.41 of 10
- Votes: 632
- Review by: Meadow Welker
- Review rating: 9.31 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/23
- Duration: 3H52M26S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, OPUS, FLAC, WMA, MP3, WAV (compression EML, ZIP, RAR, TAR.LZO)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M3S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 clich.s behind which it hides; an incitement to think again, think more clearly, and then to press for something better'.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education, Political Science & Theory, Organization & Management Of Education, Educational Strategies & Policy, Universities
- Download servers: Dropbox, MEGA, FreakShare, Google Drive, 700 files. Compressed in EML, ZIP, RAR, TAR.LZO
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.97 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x25.4mm
- Weight: 362.87g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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