Dr Monica McLean (University of Nottingham, UK), Andrea Abbas (University of Bath, UK), Dr Paul Ashwin (Lancaster Univer
Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? Quality in Undergraduate Education foregrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a public good due to the costs incurred by students who are then motivated by the promise of lucrative employment rather than by studying a discipline for its own sake. McLean, Abbas and Ashwin, however, reveal a more complex picture and offer a way of thinking about good quality university education for all. Drawing on a study which focused on four...
Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? Quality in Undergraduate Education foregrounds the impo...