The chimera of the 'international university'

International Affairs

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-120

  Halliday, Fred ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/1468-2346.00062     Document Type: Article

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1. 'The knowledge factory', The Economist, 4 October 1997.
2. Guardian Higher, 7 April 1998. That index of academic concern, the conference, shows where interest is going: in April 1998 an international conference at Tours, organized by three universities - Central Lancashire, California State University at Fresno and the Institut Universitaire de Technologie at Tours -discussed the theme of the 'global' university. (Papers from www.uclan.ac.uk) In 1997 in Los Angeles a group of US colleges got together to discuss, at a meeting on 'International education in the new global era', the crisis of international education, covering a range of topics from teaching immigrant communities to language, international relations and technical developments. (Papers from www.isop.ucla.edu)
3. Education at a glance: OECD indicators (annual publication).
4. Ekkehart Krippendorf, 'Die Idee der Universität', Prokla 104, September 1996, and his thirteen theses on the contemporary university, 'Zeit und Geduld, Stannen und Nengier', Frankfurter Rundschau, 25 January 1996. Thesis 13 is '. . .?'
5. Ekkehart Krippendorf, 'Die Idee der Universität', Prokla 104, September 1996, and his thirteen theses on the contemporary university, 'Zeit und Geduld, Stannen und Nengier', Frankfurter Rundschau, 25 January 1996. Thesis 13 is '. . .?'
6. 'The knowledge factory'.
7. Dearing Report, Appendix 5, 'Higher education in other countries'. As a member of staff one is forever arrested by comparisons. A while back I was questioned by two visitors, one from the United States, the other from Russia. The American, neat and fit in his fifties, was to the point: 'Halliday, I have two questions for you. First, what do they pay you? Secondly, can you choose your own graduate students? He was not impressed by either answer. The Russian was older and not fit; he had fought in the Second World War and endured much else. He spoke several languages. 'Dear Professor Halliday', he said, 'for you I have two questions. First, how many days a week do you have to come into the office? Secondly, the books on your shelves - are they your personal library, or do they come with the job?' British colleagues tend not to ask questions, except about other colleagues, but I suspect they might want to ask one of each of these.
8. A good example of how the LSE is seen is provided by an article on it from the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger of 20 February 1997. Entitled 'Werkstatt für kritische Kapitalisten', the subheadingss include 'Kreatives Chaos statt Elfenbeinturm', 'bierselige Koryphäen' and 'Kein intellektueller Kitsch': workshop for critical capitalists, creative chaos instead of ivory tower, tipsy eggheads, no intellectual trash.
9. Director's speech at the reception held on 5 July 1990.
10. 'Education and the wealth of nations', The Economist, 29 March 1997.
11. By such policies it means innovation, research, education and training. These it links to the development of lifelong learning and the promotion of broad access to education. Among the six main areas of activity envisaged are physical mobility of students and teachers, the use of new information and communication technologies, and the promotion of language and cultural skills. The Commission, with an eye to the years 2000-6, aims to develop a common framework of activities, coordination and monitoring. The goal is the construction of a 'Europe of knowledge'. This will be framed in legal instruments based on Articles 126 and 127 of the Treaty of Amsterdam. One of the implications will be a policy aimed at increasing budgetary resources devoted to education at a rate higher than increases in GNP. These EU goals are relevant to the international context but they also cast a critical light, not least in regard to language training and resource allocation, on our national debate here. The implications for British universities of greater educational coordination have been discussed by Dearing in Appendix 11 of his report.
12. Ralf Dahrendorf, LSE: a history of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895-1995 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 512ff.
13. George Steiner, Errata, p. 41.
14. Dahrendorf, LSE, p. 25.
15. Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party 1958-82.
16. Education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools, final report of the Advisory Group on Citizenship (London: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, 22 September 1998).
17. Steiner, Errata, p. 37.
18. Calls for increased attention to foreign language competence punctuate recent decades. For an earlier appeal see E. H. Carr, What is history? (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961), pp. 150-1 and Michael Howard, 'Ideology and international relations', Review of International Studies 15: 1, 1989, p. 9.
19. Calls for increased attention to foreign language competence punctuate recent decades. For an earlier appeal see E. H. Carr, What is history? (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961), pp. 150-1 and Michael Howard, 'Ideology and international relations', Review of International Studies 15: 1, 1989, p. 9.
20. International Herald Tribune, 30 April 1998.
21. I would point out that this is in marked contrast to the commitment, often at personal risk, of the founders of post-modernism to the defence of dominated peoples - Lyotard in underground work in support of the Algerian FLN, Foucault against human rights violations in Tunisia.
22. 'Asian boom + Asian gloom = total mystery', International Herald Tribune, 20 March 1998.
23. Quoted in Gilbert Merkx, 'Plus ça change: challenges to graduate education under HEA Title VI', paper presented to 'International education in the new global era', International Studies and Overseas Programs (Los Angeles: UCLA, 1997), p. 84.
24. Technorealism website: www.technorealism.org
25. Harry Gelber, Sovereignty through interdependence (London: Kluwer, 1997), p. 225.
26. John Ashworth, 'The School, the future and the social sciences', LSE Director's Lecture, 30 November 1995.
27. This has produced its own reactions: the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohammad, launched his 'Buy British last' campaign in the early 1980s in protest at the UK's high fee policy (Financial Times, 26-7 July 1997).
28. Ernest Gellner, Culture, identity and politic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
29. 'What strikes me as really extraordinary about the present Labour Party . . . is that its ordinary members seem to have lost interest in foreign policy. Moreover, this transformation has not been wished on them by Tony Blair and the Blairites. It seems to be self-generated': Ian Aitken, Guardian, 13 March 1998.
30. International Herald Tribune, 6 May 1998.
31. http://www.cec.org.uk
32. Nik Gowing, Media coverage: help or hindrance in conflict prevention? (New York: Carnegie Corporation, May 1997), pp. 15-18; Samantha Lay and Carolyn Payne, World out of focus: British terrestrial television and global affairs (London: Third World and Environment Broadcasting Project, February 1998).
33. Nik Gowing, Media coverage: help or hindrance in conflict prevention? (New York: Carnegie Corporation, May 1997), pp. 15-18; Samantha Lay and Carolyn Payne, World out of focus: British terrestrial television and global affairs (London: Third World and Environment Broadcasting Project, February 1998).
34. The reflex response to this will be that I am denying the validity of a 'popular' press. My argument is, on the contrary, for one that is both popular and informative. Such papers exist in other countries: as my colleague Christopher Hill has drawn to my attention, the most popular Italian paper La Nazione carried an obituary of the post-modernist philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (11 April 1998). Could you imagine the Daily Mail doing so?
35. International Herald Tribune, 17 February 1998. See also Nick Cohen, 'The death of news', New Statesman, 22 May 1998.
36. International Herald Tribune, 17 February 1998. See also Nick Cohen, 'The death of news', New Statesman, 22 May 1998.
37. Seventy-seven per cent of UK cinema box-office takings go to five US distributors: Guardian, 10 February 1998.
38. Guardian, 2 April 1998.
39. Such carping is not confined to orthodox politicians. For a typical whinge from a former academic and overrated columnist, see Ros Coward, 'Publish and students be damned', Guardian, 10 July 1995.
40. AUT, Higher education preparing for the twenty-first century (London: Association of University Teachers, 1995), p. 13.