Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way? Nigel Thrift, a well-known academic and a former Vice-Chancellor, explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession of misplaced strategies and false expectations. Challenging both higher education policy and leadership, he argues that the focus on student number growth and a series of research policy missteps has upset research universities' priorities just at a point in the history of planetary breakdown when their research is most needed.
- | Author: Nigel Thrift
- | Publisher: Policy Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 29, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 314 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Education
- | ISBN-10: 1447364848
- | ISBN-13: 9781447364849
