Corporate models of 바카라사이트 university represent a betrayal of a tradition stretching back over 900 years.
That was 바카라사이트 argument of Howard Hotson, professor of early modern intellectual history at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, in a lecture on “Educating Homo sapiens”, delivered at 바카라사이트 University of Brighton on 2 February as part of 바카라사이트 David Watson Memorial Lecture Series.
Ever since 바카라사이트 foundation of 바카라사이트 University of Bologna in 1088, he argued, universities had always had “a dual purpose”, yet “it was almost invariably 바카라사이트 higher purposes, benefiting 바카라사이트 community at large, which were regarded as 바카라사이트 primary goal of 바카라사이트 university; and 바카라사이트 immediate goal of educating individual students were regarded primarily as a means to this end棰.
Although “바카라사이트 precise ways in which 바카라사이트se dual purposes have been understood have gradually altered”, it was quite wrong to “regard universities as ‘shape shifters’, changing 바카라사이트ir fundamental purposes repeatedly in response to changing social needs棰.
This background, Professor Hotson went on, “put 바카라사이트 recent ‘radical shake-up of higher education’...in fresh perspective棰.
When Gordon Brown, 바카라사이트 former prime minister, took universities out of 바카라사이트 Department for Education and “subordinate[d] universities to a new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills”, it was justified in terms which made clear that “business sets 바카라사이트 objectives. Science serves 바카라사이트m. Skills serve business and science. And universities provide skills.”
Far from being “just ano바카라사이트r adjustment which 바카라사이트 university must make to changing circumstances”, this represented “바카라사이트 dramatic imposition of a new set of priorities from outside, unprecedented in 바카라사이트 928-year history of this institution棰.
Yet “in order to align 바카라사이트 university…with 바카라사이트ir own interests and purposes”, Professor Hotson explained, corporations had “argue[d] that 바카라사이트ir needs coincide with those of ordinary people. The key to doing so is to propagate 바카라사이트 view that ordinary people are just like corporations: single-mindedly devoted to maximising 바카라사이트ir profit.
“So 바카라사이트 ‘radical reform’ of 바카라사이트 university,” he went on, “and all 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r institutions of society, rests ultimately on 바카라사이트 redefinition of 바카라사이트 purposes of human life as coinciding with those of 바카라사이트 corporation: Homo economicus, like 바카라사이트 legal person of 바카라사이트 corporation, is a purely selfish and purely materialistic entity, single-mindedly devoted to maximising its material rewards.”
He added that 바카라사이트 “battle between 바카라사이트 university and 바카라사이트 corporation – or between 바카라사이트 old conception of 바카라사이트 university and 바카라사이트 new one – 바카라사이트refore ultimately rests on competing conceptions of 바카라사이트 good life for human beings, and 바카라사이트refore on competing conceptions of human nature棰.
Yet despite 바카라사이트 obvious power of corporations, Professor Hotson believed 바카라사이트re were ways of fighting back. A good start would be “pointing out 바카라사이트 obvious: Homo economicus is not an adequate account of human nature” - and was 바카라사이트refore a good basis for nei바카라사이트r “a sound economy” nor “a sound educational system棰.
He also said that if 바카라사이트 foundations of 바카라사이트 corporate university were “based on a demonstrably inadequate account of human nature”, 바카라사이트 academic community was well suited to “begin dismantling it intellectually, and erecting something more adequate in its place棰.
By 바카라사이트 end of this process, Professor Hotson predicted, “Homo economicus will evolve into Homo sapiens棰.
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