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The new idea of a university /

Something has gone deeply wrong with the university - too deeply wrong to be put right by any merely bureaucratic means. What's wrong is, simply, that our official idea of education, the idea that inspires all government policies and 'initiatives', is itself uneducated. With the growi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maskell, Duke
Otros Autores: Robinson, Ian, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Something has gone deeply wrong with the university - too deeply wrong to be put right by any merely bureaucratic means. What's wrong is, simply, that our official idea of education, the idea that inspires all government policies and 'initiatives', is itself uneducated. With the growing emphasis in higher education on training in supposedly useful skills, has the very ethos of the university been subverted? And does this more utilitarian university succeed in adding to the national wealth, t...
Notas:Originally published: London : Haven Books, 2001
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 198 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-198).
ISBN:9781845403737
1845403738