Education towards heteronomy: a critical analysis of the reform of UK universities since 1978 - James Gordon Finlayson and Danny Hayward
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Apr 17 2012 16:39
A detailed history of higher education reform in the UK. Looks at how universities have been increasingly subordinated to the economy and the state.
N.b. while libcom does not share the authors' apparent support for 'democracy and the rule of law' - with a university-centred 'civil society' as a third sphere alongside market and state - this is a useful account for understanding recent higher education reform and as background to the UK student protests of 2010.
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