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Author(s): Nigel Thrift

ISBN(s): 9781447364849, 9781447364856, 9781447364863, 1447364848, 1447364856, 1447364864

Edition: 2022

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Year: 2022

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 1447364848
ISBN 13: 9781447364849
Author: Nigel Thrift

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.

THE PURSUIT OF POSSIBILITY Redesigning Research Universities 2022nd Edition Table of contents:

1 Is that a ‘university’? I’m not sure

A resumé

The research university

What about the other universities?

Excellence

Part I The research university

2 So what is a ‘university’? Part 1

The infrastructure

Academics

Online learning

Contract research staff

Research support staff

Postgraduate students

Administrators

3 So what is a ‘university’? Part 2

Undergraduate students

Freedom of speech

Parents

Other constituencies

Council

Alumni

Donors

Local communities

Business

Part II The contemporary British university system

4 A new Robbins? Recent changes in British universities

The changes

The take-down?

Through the wringer

5 The hardy perennials

Public or private?

Access

Funding teaching

Funding research

Research integrity

Pensions

League tables

Autonomy – or the lack of it

The Office for Students

So why bother with intermediaries?

So why autonomy?

Dissatisfaction

6 The Australianisation of British higher education

Risky business?

Growth and more growth

The consequences of the growth machine

The problem of leadership

A coming financial crisis?

7 On vice-chancelloring – a footnote

What do vice-chancellors do?

Leading a research university

Summary

Part III The research university of the future

8 So what is a research university?

What is a university for?

Duties

A loss of research excellence?

Too much

Research culture

Discovery research

In the wrong place

9 Redesigning the research university

Redesigning the university system

For policy

For teaching

For research universities

Redesigning universities

Go small

Scale back

Grow substantially

Different forms of collaboration

Testudo

International cooperation

Conglomerating research centres

Give up the ghost

A parting shot

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