Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

• Main Author: Watts, Rob (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies
• Subjects: Education.; Management.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Education and state.; Higher Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Education Policy.; Educational Philosophy.; Sociology of Education.

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 sel...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Thinking about the Public University
• Chapter 2. The Good Ol' Days: Life in the Public University
• Chapter 3. Universities under the Sign of the Market
• Chapter 4. The Idea of 'Marketizing' the University: Against Magical Thinking
• Chapter 5. The Rise of the Manageriat
• Chapter 6. Teaching in the 'Marketized' University
• Chapter 7. The Student Experience
• Chapter 8. The Fate of Knowledge in the Modern University
• Conclusion: Thinking into the Future.