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The New Power University: The social purpose of higher education in the 21st century
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The New Power University: The social purpose of higher education in the 21st century

by Jonathan Grant
April 2021
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
7h 4m
English
Pearson Education
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Part Four

The conduct of the New Power University

Any reform movement which is limited to correcting slovenly or slipshod abuses in our university will lead inevitably to a reform which is equally slovenly . . . An institution is a machine in that its whole structure and functioning must be devised in view of the service it is expected to perform. In other words, the root of university reform is a complete formulation of its purpose. Any alteration, or touching up, or adjustment about this house of ours, unless it starts by reviewing the problem of its mission – clearly, decisively, truthfully – will be love’s labour lost.

José Ortega y Gasset (1946)

Having considered how the New Power University must evolve in terms of its purposes and its ...

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