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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education
Rob Watts
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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies. Num Pages: 359 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 1MBF; JNA; JNK; JNMN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 220 x 2. Weight in Grams: 608.
This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell education and research in a competitive market. This engaging and provocative book argues that this is not actually the case. Drawing on lived experience, Watts asserts that the reality is actually a consequence of contradictory government policy and new public management whose exponents talk and act `as-if' universities have become businesses. The result of which is ... Read more
This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell education and research in a competitive market. This engaging and provocative book argues that this is not actually the case. Drawing on lived experience, Watts asserts that the reality is actually a consequence of contradictory government policy and new public management whose exponents talk and act `as-if' universities have become businesses. The result of which is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Critical University Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137535986
SKU
V9781137535986
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About Rob Watts
Rob Watts is Professor of Social Policy at RMIT University, Australia. His books include The Foundations of the National Welfare State, Sociology Australia, and States of Violence and the Civilising Process: On Criminology and State Crime.
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