Killing thinking : the death of the universities / Mary Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Mary, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Great Britain.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Great Britain--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Education--Aims and objectives--Great Britain.

Education.

Higher education and state--Great Britain.

Higher education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The more it costs, the less it's worth. (Student slogan, London, 2003) ""We are told that this world represents our best hope for intellectual vitality and creativity. We are also told that we should pay more to enter it and experience its rich resources. Yet those rich resources are increasingly marginalized by cultures of assessment and regulation, the heavy costs of which (both financial and intellectual) are to be carried by students. Increasingly students are being asked to pay for the costs of the regulation of higher education rather than education itself. Access to Higher Education has

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Through the Looking Glass: or what Pierre Bourdieu and Kingsley Amis have in common; The Heart of Darkness: Audit and Compliance; The Language of Learning; Gendered Spaces; Iron Cages; Survival Strategies; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611784188

9780826473134

082647313X

9781441177872

1441177876

9781281784186

1281784184

9780826446602

0826446604

OCLC:

636450167