Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

by Rob Watts

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137535989
• ISBN13: 9781137535986
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.3"