Universities and Corporate Universities: The Higher Learning Industry in Global Society

by Jarvis,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780749434038
• ISBN10: 0749434031
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An exploration of the world of higher education and higher learning, and its relationship to the corporate world and the global learning society. Peter Jarvis synthesizes developments in HE, training and corporate research and development in order to map the future of learning and training.

Author Biography

Peter Jarvis is Professor for Continuing Education in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Surrey, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
About the author	ix
Universities under pressure	1	(19)
The changing status of the university	3	(3)
Changing student clientele	6	(2)
The universities and the marketplace for learning	8	(3)
The changing forms of knowledge	11	(3)
The changing nature of research	14	(1)
Changing methods of delivery of programmes	15	(2)
The changing role of the academic	17	(1)
Conclusion	18	(2)
Globalization and its implications	20	(17)
The processes of economic globalization	20	(9)
The nation state and universities	29	(3)
The university and its region	32	(3)
Conclusion	35	(2)
Knowledge and the knowledge society	37	(21)
The nature of the knowledge society	38	(2)
The nature of knowledge	40	(6)
Practical knowledge	46	(4)
Research	50	(3)
Managing knowledge	53	(3)
Conclusion	56	(2)
From teaching to learning	58	(19)
The dissemination of knowledge	58	(2)
Teaching	60	(1)
From teaching to learning	61	(4)
Lifelong learning	65	(4)
Innovations in teaching	69	(3)
Distance education	72	(2)
Learning and research	74	(2)
Conclusion	76	(1)
Universities and the learning society	77	(19)
The learning society	77	(11)
Learning cities	88	(3)
The learning organization	91	(3)
Conclusion	94	(2)
The corporate university (academy) of the university	96	(15)
The corporate nature of the university	97	(6)
The university's corporate academy (university)	103	(4)
Universities at the crossroads	107	(2)
Conclusion	109	(2)
The corporate university	111	(18)
The history and expansion of the corporate university	112	(4)
Characteristics and programmes of corporate universities	116	(6)
Corporate universities as universities	122	(6)
Conclusion	128	(1)
The lifelong learning industry	129	(11)
The corporate universities	132	(3)
The universities	135	(3)
Conclusion	138	(2)
What is the university?	140	(10)
The concept of `university'	142	(3)
The distinctive features of traditional universities	145	(2)
Discourse about the university	147	(2)
Conclusion	149	(1)
References	150	(12)
Index	162