The Challenge to Higher Education: Reconciling Responsibilities to Scholarship and to SocietyExamines: closed system tendencies in higher education; the academic ethic; purposive liberal education; integration. Published by the Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. |
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Closedsystem Tendencies in Higher Education | 7 |
Higher Education as a Public Service | 19 |
Towards a Broader Conception of the Academic Ethic | 28 |
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