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'This valuable collection of essays avoids both cynical renunciation and breathless proclamation: it can be used as a lucid agenda of the issues.' -Anthony Smith, Magdalen College, Oxford, The Times Higher Education SupplementHigher Education is changing - in scope, style, technology, and objectives. This book looks at the impact of information technologies on higher education and the reorganisation of universities in more managerial and business directions. The book combines empirical and analytical chapters from scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Author:   Kevin Robins (, Professor of Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London) ,  Frank Webster (, Professor of Sociology, City University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.634kg
ISBN:  

9780199245574

ISBN 10:   0199245576
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   07 November 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: The New Global Context 1: Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: The Virtual University? 2: John Urry: Globalizing the Academy 3: Gerard Delanty: The University and Modernity: A History of the Present 4: Masao Miyoshi: The University in the 'Global' Economy Part II: Practices and Policies 5: James Cornford and Neil Pollock: Working Through the Work of Making Work Mobile 6: Charles Crook: The Virtual University: The Learner's Perspective 7: Mike Reed and Rosemary Deem: New Managerialism: The Manager-Academic and Technologies of Management in Universities---Looking Forward to Virtuality? 8: Yiannis Gabriel and Andrew Sturdy: Exporting Management -- Neo-Imperialism and Global Consumerism 9: Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy: Saving the Soul of the University: What is to be Done? 10: Philip Agre: Commodity and Community: Institutional Design for the Networked University Part III: Prospects and Possibilities 11: Les Levidow: Marketizing Higher Education: Neo-Liberal Strategies and Counter Strategies 12: Tim Luke: Digital Discourses, Online Classes, Electronic Documents: Developing New University Techno-Cultures 13: David F. Noble: Rehearsal for the Revolution 14: Martin Trow: Some Consequences of the New Information and Communications Technologies for Higher Education Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: Afterword: What Will be the Global Identity of the University?

Reviews

`The book maybe useful to academics involved in university management roles, to professional managers and strategists in the forefront of education industry as well as to a wider academic community tracing the orientation in the university in transition.' Journal of Documentation, vol. 59 no. 6 `The Virtual University? Knowledge Markets and Management, presents a variety of aspects, features, approaches and achievements in changing university - virtual or global university phenomena.' Journal of Documentation, vol. 59 no. 6

This valuable collection of essays avoids both cynical renunciation and breathless proclamation: it can be used as a lucid agenda of the issues. Anthony Smith, Magdalen College, Oxford, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Author Information

Kevin Robins studied at the universities of Sussex, York, and Kent. He is Professor of Communications, Goldsmith's College, University of London. His books include The Technical Fix: Education, Computers, and Industry (1989, with Frank Webster), Into the Image (1996), Times of the Technoculture (1999, with Frank Webster), and Spaces of Identity (1995, with David Morley). Frank Webster was educated at the University of Durham and the London School of Economics. He is Professor of Sociology at City University. He was previously Professor of Sociology in the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham (1999-2002). Recent publications are: Times of the Technoculture (1999, with Kevin Robins), Theories of the Information Society (2002), and Culture and Politics in the Information Age (2001).

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