The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities Thrift Nigel
The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities Thrift Nigel Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way? He considers what a research university…
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The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities Thrift Nigel
Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way? 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. 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.
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