Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University

By: Margaret Thornton

This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared that Australia would go further and deregulate fees altogether. In the best...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925022137
• ISBN13: 9781925022131
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.8"