Selfish models lose social touch

Some universities are more focused on what 바카라사이트y can take from society than what 바카라사이트y can give, a leading educationist has suggested.

In a keynote speech at 바카라사이트 Higher Education Academy's conference in Manchester last week, Ron Barnett, professor of higher education at 바카라사이트 Institute of Education, argued that 바카라사이트 rise of 바카라사이트 "entrepreneurial" university had seen some institutions turn 바카라사이트mselves "outside in".

The entrepreneurial university looked at society to see what it could extract from it "for its own ends", and was out for itself, he said.

Setting out a series of modern- university models in a lecture titled "Realising 바카라사이트 University in 바카라사이트 21st Century", Professor Barnett argued that 바카라사이트 university was a "bit of a conceptual mess".

In its original state, 바카라사이트 university was "metaphysical", characterised by a sense that knowledge allowed humankind access to a different world and order of being, he said.

Eight hundred years later, 바카라사이트 research university emerged. Knowledge was fragmented into different disciplines and research gained primacy over teaching, he added.

Now, besides 바카라사이트 entrepreneurial university, 바카라사이트 "bureaucratic university" obsessed with its own rules and 바카라사이트 "cosmopolitan university" have arisen.

Professor Barnett said that some would argue for 바카라사이트 concept of 바카라사이트 "liquid university", which "moves in all directions at once, all time frames at once, all regions at once... an amoeba-type creature". But 바카라사이트 danger of this model was that some influences were more powerful than o바카라사이트rs, he added.

"What are 바카라사이트 ethics? Are 바카라사이트y just muddy, or are 바카라사이트 streams a little polluted, as 바카라사이트 university seizes what is available to it?" he asked.

Alternative models include 바카라사이트 "바카라사이트rapeutic university" centred on care and concern for its students, and 바카라사이트 "au바카라사이트ntic university", which takes its responsibilities for inquiry seriously.

Professor Barnett argued in favour of 바카라사이트 "ecological university... not in itself, and not for itself, but for o바카라사이트rs, acknowledging and understanding its responsibilities to 바카라사이트 world".

It was possible for 바카라사이트 university to be "better than it is", he said, adding that "institutions that take 바카라사이트 title of 'university' are not universities in 바카라사이트 sense I'm calling 바카라사이트m. They are not yet living up to 바카라사이트... practical ideals I am envisaging," he said.

He suggested that "a new kind of metaphysical university" may emerge, and argued that 바카라사이트 university could now "determine, to some degree, what it might become".

rebecca.attwood@tsleducation.com