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The landscapes of higher education have been changing rapidly, with enormous growths in participation rates in many countries across the world, and major developments and changes within institutions. But the languages that we need to conceptualise and understand these changes have not been keeping pace. The central argument in this book is that new ways of thinking about higher education, the new languages of its title, are needed to understand the role of universities and colleges in contemporary society and culture and the global economy, new landscapes. Over-reliance on existing conceptualisations of higher education, has made it difficult to understand fully the nature of 21st-century higher education. It may also have encouraged a view that there is no alternative to the development of more marketized forms of higher education. The analysis offered suggests that the future is much more open. It argues that familiar categories, normally accepted as givens, are actually more fluid.'Systems'of higher education, whether expressed through direct public funding or through regulatory regimes, are being eroded.'Institutions', often assumed to be to be given enhanced agency by more cor

Author

Peter Scott; Jim Gallacher; Gareth Parry

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191829154

Subjects

Education