Higher Education and the Student: From Welfare State to Neoliberalism

ISBN-13: 9780367133498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018

Robert Troschitz

Opis

As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system in recent decades. What was once a public good has turned into a market in which universities are required to perform like businesses, with students being increasingly referred to as customers. The Idea of Higher Education and the Student investigates precisely this relation between the changing function of higher education and how we see the student. But instead of offering yet another critique of neoliberalism and marketisation, it widens the view beyond the present.

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 Theorising Higher Education Part One: Higher Education for Post-War Britain 3 Setting the Scene 4 National Needs and the Provision of Manpower 5 The Idea of the University 6 The Student Voice Part Two: Breaking the Ivory Tower  7 Higher Education and the Welfare State 8 Barbarians at the Gates  9 New Institutions for New Students?  10 The 1960s Student Protests Part Three: Marketisation and the Student as Customer 11 Thatcherism and New Public Management  12 Towards the Learning Society  13 Higher Education and the Third Way  14 The Triumph of the Market  15 Neoliberal Governmentality and the Student  Part Four: Beyond the Customer and Neoliberal Higher Education 16 Looking Forward to the Past  17 Contesting the Customer  18 Towards the Future  19 The 2010 Student Protests  20 Conclusion

O autorze

Robert Troschitz currently works at Dresden University of Technology.