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Conclusion: Thinking into the Future

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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

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Many universities have been both ‘marketised’ and subjected to a new kind of rational-technical style of management makeover in Britain, America and Australia. In consequence, it is now looking like many of these institutions will be less and less able to do the basic things we imagine, or expect a university ought to be doing. In this chapter I want to think through what we might want to do about this.

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Watts, R. (2017). Conclusion: Thinking into the Future. In: Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53599-3_10

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