The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities

By Nigel Thrift

Book Overview

Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way?

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. 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.

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 needed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447364848
• ISBN13: 9781447364849
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"