The triple crisis of the university and its reinvention

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2003

Authors

Alberto Amaral (Author) FCUP; António M. Magalhães (Author) FPCEUP

Journal

Title: Higher Education Policy

Vol. 16 No. 2

Pages: 239-253

ISSN: 0952-8733

Publisher: Springer Nature

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge

Scopus - 2 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-007-DZK

DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300018

Abstract (EN): Universities are living a triple crisis of hegemony, of legitimacy and institutional. This crisis is coterminous with the fiscal crisis of the state and the crisis of the welfare state. The loss of legitimacy of the welfare state gave rise to an increasing role of the market and to the change of the university from a 'social institution' to a mere 'social organization' while new managerial values seem to be replacing the traditional modes of academic governance. It is necessary for higher education to be reinvented and for academics to present again the case for higher education. But this needs to be a new case, not a restatement of the former. © 2003 International Association of Universities.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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No. of pages: 15