Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Some Misconceptions 1
  • Chapter 2 What is Higher Education For? 7
  • Chapter 3 How the System Developed 16
  • Chapter 4 Understanding the New Higher Education System 33
  • Chapter 5 Is it Worth Entering Higher Education? 39
  • Chapter 6 Students in the System: access and participation 46
  • Chapter 7 Ways of Learning 61
  • Chapter 8 Assessment of Students 78
  • Chapter 9 Projects and Research 90
  • Chapter 10 What Academic Freedom is, Why it Matters 104
  • Chapter 11 Pressures for Accountability 110
  • Chapter 12 The Government and Finance of Institutions 117
  • Chapter 13 What are Academics Really Like? 126
  • Chapter 14 The Shape of Things to Come 138.