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200 10$aHigher education and the public good$b[electronic resource] $eimagining the university /$fJon Nixon
210   $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum International Pub. Group$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (167 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-4411-6491-X 
311   $a0-8264-3743-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Public in Retreat; Chapter 2 Social Imaginaries; Chapter 3 Civic Imaginaries; Chapter 4 Cosmopolitan Imaginaries; Interlude: From Imaginaries to Actualities; Chapter 5 Human Capability; Chapter 6 Human Reasoning; Chapter 7 Human Purpose; Chapter 8 The Return of the Public; Coda: A Sense of Possibility; References; Index
330   $aWhat constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society?. The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education - and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis and its aftermath for the university sector as a whole. Jon Nixon argues that the university now has to be re-imagin
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