Malcolm Noble teaches and researches at Leicester Vaughan College, a Community Benefit Society, UK.Cilla Ross is Vice-Principal of the Co-operative College CIO, UK.

• Chapter 1. Now is the time for co-operative higher education; Malcolm Noble and Cilla Ross.- Chapter 2. Useable pasts for a cooperative university: as different as light from darkness?; Tom Woodin.- Chapter 3. Establishing and sustaining co-operative universities and co-operative higher education in international contexts: Challenges and possibilities; Amanda Benson and Cilla Ross.- Chapter 4. Prefiguring the idea of the university: What can be learned from autonomous learning spaces that have experimented with no-fee, alternative forms of higher education in the UK; Gary Saunders.- Chapter 5. The social science centre, Lincoln: Free, co-operative higher education; Members of the SSC.- Chapter 6. The RED learning co-operative: Research, education and development for social change; Fenella Porter and Tracy Walsh.- Chapter 7. Phoenix from the ashes: The origins and development of Leicester Vaughan College; Lucy Faire and Miriam Gill.- Chapter 8. The co-operative intellect: Journeys in radical human ecology; Luke Devlin, Svenja Meyerricks and Anne Winther.- Chapter 9. The co-operative as site of pedagogy: The example of Edinburgh student housing co-operative; Perez and Shaw.- Chapter 10. Co-operative research and research co-operatives; Thomas Swann.- Chapter 11. MOOC's coming of age: u.lab and UExplore in Scotland; Anne Winther, Valerie Jackman, Keira Oliver.- Chapter 12. Collaging with co-operators: An arts-based inquiry into member perceptions of co-operative higher education; Hannah Bland.- Chapter 13. Seeking a co-operative university: Reconstructing adult education and reclaiming HE as a public good; Malcolm Noble and Cilla Ross.- Chapter 14. Afterword; Sally Birch.