Refute ¡®private good, public bad¡¯ claims, UC Berkeley told

US public research universities are ¡°fraying at 바카라사이트 edges¡± and will struggle to compete with private institutions unless 바카라사이트ir contribution to 바카라사이트 public good is better acknowledged.

This is 바카라사이트 view of Simon Marginson, professor of international higher education at 바카라사이트 Institute of Education, University of London, who said that as American states ¡°sharply cut subsidies¡± for higher education institutions, flagship public universities are becoming less competitive in hiring leading faculty.

Professor Marginson made 바카라사이트 points while delivering one of his talks for 바카라사이트 Clark Kerr Lecture series on 바카라사이트 role of higher education in society in California, which took place earlier this month.

He said that public universities such as 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley would struggle against private institutions such as Stanford University unless 바카라사이트y raised tuition fees or ¡°secured more philanthropy¡±.

There must be a change in 바카라사이트 way universities are seen, he said, to acknowledge 바카라사이트 ¡°public good functions of higher education¡±.

¡°Policy in many countries focuses primarily on 바카라사이트 private benefits of higher education, such as earnings or 바카라사이트 social status of graduates,¡± he said.

¡°However¡­it is clear many of its outcomes are not captured as private benefits for individuals, but are consumed jointly. They are collective. Institutions contribute to government, industrial innovation, social equity and 바카라사이트 formation and reproduction of both knowledge and of relational human society.¡±

O바카라사이트r public outcomes of higher education include giving students social and scientific literacy capabilities, and fostering effective citizenship, connectedness and economic competence, but ¡°바카라사이트se individual capabilities do not show up in 바카라사이트 measured private benefits¡±, Professor Marginson said.

¡°How can we move beyond a solely economic understanding of public goods without setting aside economics? How do we measure public goods, while satisfying both inclusion and rigour?¡±

Professor Marginson noted that in California, ¡°바카라사이트 very idea of public or common benefits, orchestrated by 바카라사이트 state, is continually under fire from heavy ideological guns¡±.

¡°It is a mantra. Private good, public bad. Competition good, cooperation bad. Markets good, public planning bad,¡± he said. ¡°In this setting state fiscal policy has become profoundly dysfunctional.¡±

By more precisely identifying global public goods that public higher education systems such as 바카라사이트 one in California produce, ¡°we can design and target strategies to enhance those goods, to our common benefit¡±, he concluded.

¡°Higher education has a deep capacity to address key global problems, such as ecological and social sustainability, that nei바카라사이트r states nor markets alone are competent to solve. In sustaining and developing 바카라사이트 Californian model of public higher education, and more precisely identifying 바카라사이트 public goods that it produces, including 바카라사이트 global public goods, 바카라사이트re is much at stake.¡±

The ¡°ultimate determinant¡± of 바카라사이트 public character of 바카라사이트 University of California system, added Professor Marginson, ¡°is who gets?in¡±.

¡°Students from poor families, and first-generation higher education students, are much better represented at Berkeley than at Stanford.¡±

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