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Item Details
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ACADEMICS AND THE REAL WORLD
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| By: |
Gillian Evans |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0335211119 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780335211111 |
| Publisher: |
OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2002 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
Explores the core values of universities, the pressure on them from government policies, the threat to the integrity and independence of their research from their partnerships with large corporations, and the problems they are having in running themselves efficiently whilst maintaining their identity. |
| Synopsis: |
* What are modern universities for? * How can universities preserve their integrity when they have to bid for commercial funding? * Are academics out of touch with the 'real world'? Gillian Evans examines how far the traditional purposes of the universities are still relevant to their encounters with the changed priorities of the modern world. Increasingly, it seems, academia is expected to engage with the 'real world'. For instance, university teachers are being asked to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit in their students; researchers are more likely now to be doing the kind of research that has practical applications and is funded by commercial sponsors; and university administrators have been encouraged to adopt management models from private business. Against this background, Academics and the Real World explores the core values of universities, the pressure on them from government policies, the threat to the integrity and independence of their research from their partnerships with large corporations, and the problems they are having in running themselves efficiently whilst maintaining their identity.It probes at the crucial question of what should be the nature of the relationship between universities and their wider society. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Open University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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