Locating universities in a globalising world

Susan L. Robertson, Kris Olds

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Abstract

This chapter explores some of the key issues and challenges facing the contemporary university. It includes the issues of access, student mobility, the positional good nature of higher education, new pedagogical innovations, expanding institutional geographies of universities, the rise of new players in the sector including for-profits, and the commercialization of ideas, knowledge and education. The challenge facing many higher education sectors and their academic leaders and managers, to broadly realize a new knowledge-based development model, is driven by three logics 'capitalism's animal spirit' – competition. These logics are changing higher education institutions and changing the nature of strategic planning, away from administering national state mechanisms as a public service and towards competitive and market-based models based on the interests of each institution and its participants. Universities are not only a site of human capital formation but increasingly also a business endeavour best organized using the disciplinary values and principles of competitivism and economic rather than human progress.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHigher Education Strategy and Planning
Subtitle of host publicationA Professional Guide
EditorsTony Strike
Place of PublicationAbingdon UK
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter1
Pages13-29
Number of pages17
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781315206455
ISBN (Print)9781138635210, 9781138635265
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes

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