Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way? Nigel Thrift, a well-known academic and a former Vice-Chancellor, explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession of misplaced strategies and false expectations. Challenging both higher education policy and leadership, he argues that the focus on student number growth and a series of research policy missteps has upset research universities’ priorities just at a point in the history of planetary breakdown when their research is most needed.
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Nigel Thrift explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession of misplaced strategies and false expectations.
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1: Is that a ‘university’? I’m not sure Part I: The research university 2: So what is a ‘university’? Part 1: Architecture and academics 3: So what is a ‘university’? Part 2: Students, parents and other constituencies Part II: The contemporary British university system 4: A new Robbins? Recent changes in British universities 5: The hardy perennials 6: The Australianisation of British higher education 7: On vice- chancelloring – a footnote Part III: The research university of the future 8: So what is a research university? 9: Redesigning the research university
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• From a well-known academic and former Vice-Chancellor who has experience of research universities around the world and writes in an accessible and readable style. • Provides a critical account of the current state of the research university and clear proposals for what should change in future to ensure that research is available when it is most needed at a time of planetary breakdown. • A provocative argument that will attract attention and wide discussion
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ISBN
9781447364856
Publisert
2022-10-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Policy Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

Professor Nigel Thrift is currently Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management. Previously he was Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars. Before that he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Oxford. He is Visiting Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol. His research spans international finance; cities in their many manifestations; non-representational theory; affective politics; and the history of timekeeping.