Universities in the UK: Drowning by numbers - Introduction

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Howie, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33746410151     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00610.x     Document Type: Editorial

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1. Merrill Lynch estimated this demand to be in excess of US$2 trillion per year (figure quoted in Alex Nunn, The General Agreement on Trade in Services: An Impact Assessment for Higher Education in the UK (AUT, 2001), 10)
2. It is important to note that 'quality' is not itself the issue. After visits to more than 2000 departments, review teams found only two or three 'failing' departments (see Better Accountability for Higher Education (HEFCE, 2000). PA Consulting suggest that the amount quoted is an underestimation as it does not include non-quantifiable behavioural costs
3. I began working through this distinction in 'From Process to Product: Quality Audits and Instrumental Reason', in Contemporary Issues in Education, ed. D. Preston (New York: Rodopi, 2004)
4. See Theodor Adorno, 'Culture Industry Reconsidered', in The Culture Industry, ed. J. M. Bernstein (London: Routledge, 1991)
5. See Terry Hyland, 'Reconsidering Competence', Journal of Philosophy of Education, 31:3 (November 1997)
6. Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995)
7. Jürgen Habermas, Theory and Practice (London: Heinemann, 1974), 207-9
8. See Louise Morley, Quality and Power in Higher Education (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2003), 164-5; also pp. 87-9
9. Jürgen Habermas, 'Technology and Science as "Ideology"', in Toward a Rational Society, trans. J. J. Shapiro (London: Heinemann, 1971), 82
10. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (London: Verso, 1986), 135
11. See Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987)
12. Jürgen Habermas, The New Conservatism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989)
13. Karl Jaspers, quoted in Habermas, The New Conservatism, 100