Higher Education and the Common Good
Simon Marginson, "Higher Education and the Common Good"
English | ISBN: 0522871119 | 2016 | pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0522871119 | 2016 | pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
In the last half century higher education has moved from the fringe to the centre of society and accumulated a long list of functions. In the English-speaking world, Europe and much of East Asia more than two thirds of all school students enter tertiary education. Bulging at the seams, universities are meant to be fountains of new knowledge, engines of prosperity and innovation, drivers of regional growth, skilled migration and global competitiveness, and makers of equality of opportunity. Yet universities cannot drive prosperity on their own and they can do little to stop rising income inequality, which is shaped by taxation policy and income determination in the workplace. Worse, the growing emphasis on the private benefits of higher education, without regard for its public benefits, has positioned the higher education sector as elite forming, as a maker of social inequality rather than a corrective to it.
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