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GROUNDS - FOR DEBATE

24 May 2021

The main element, which was both a cause and effect of the shift, was the sustained innovation of all kinds that is the central feature of the modern world. [...] This is the theory, and in many parts of the world it has been the reality since the end of the nineteenth century. [...] The number of actual incidents is small in proportion to the size of the sector and the number of students. [...] The first is the one just identified, the way the combination of government funding (and increasingly also corporate funding) and the meritocratic labour market has corrupted the purpose and nature of the academy. [...] Part of the way in which parts of the world moved from the historical norm to the more expansive conversations of modernity was through the spontaneous development by voluntary action and cooperation of a range of institutions that facilitated free discussion and expression, as well as the reform of older ones such as the university.
Pages
30
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United Kingdom