Higher Education Re-formed

Peter Scott is currently Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University. Previously he was Professor of Education, then Pro-Vice-Challencor of the University of Leeds. He was also Editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement for sixteen years.

• 1. A Connecticut Yankee? An Unlikely Case Senario Sheldon Rothbatt Systems, Institutions and Students: 2. Strategy and Management for University Development Alan Wilson 3. The Distributed University Roger Waterhouse 4. Plato.com: The Role and Impact of Corporate Universities in the Next Millennium Geraldine Kenney-Wallace 5. Students as Consumers: The Individualisation of Competitive Advantage David Robertson 6. The Globalization of Higher Education Dennis Blight, Dorothy Davis and Alan Olsen 7. Re-Configuring the University Ronald Barnett Future Knowledge: 8. New Technologies, Students and the Curriculum: The Impact of Communication and Information Technology and Higher Education Diana Laurillard 9. A Profession for the New Millennium? John Randall 10. The Future of Research Jonathan Adams 11. A Tale of Three Revolutions? Science, Society and the University Peter Scott

'... [offers] valuable insight into the issues that will be shaping higher education systems for decades to come.' - ACU Bulletin'I commend this collection to them [policy makers], and to everyone interested in defending the university as champion of learning for its own sake, as well as of meeting the needs of society and the economy.' - Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning