Introduction | p. IX |
The Functions of Education | p. 1 |
What Happens in a School | p. 1 |
Why Go to University? | p. 11 |
The Modern University | p. 23 |
How Does It Happen? | p. 23 |
How Does it Get Measured? | p. 34 |
What Do You Get? | p. 43 |
When Things Go Wrong | p. 49 |
What Comes Next? | p. 65 |
Getting More of What You Want | p. 75 |
What You Can't Control | p. 75 |
The Academic Student | p. 79 |
The Vocational Student | p. 95 |
The Certification Student | p. 106 |
The Good Citizen | p. 112 |
The Holding-Pen Student | p. 126 |
Internal Contradictions | p. 135 |
Things That Don't Make Sense | p. 135 |
Grading | p. 136 |
Too Cool for School | p. 147 |
Competing Agendas and Politicization | p. 154 |
Private or Public, Consumer or User? | p. 160 |
Eroding Value and Graduating "Everyone" | p. 169 |
Why Does It Hang Together? | p. 177 |
The Big Picture | p. 183 |
Beyond the Personal | p. 183 |
The Universality of University | p. 184 |
The Scam | p. 195 |
Further | p. 205 |
The Big Investment | p. 211 |
Financial Pressure | p. 211 |
Silencing Dissent | p. 222 |
Proposals for Reform | p. 331 |
A Few Modest Suggestions | p. 231 |
Redefine "Of Age" | p. 232 |
Separation of Functions | p. 235 |
Break the Monopoly | p. 240 |
Civil Service | p. 244 |
Grassroots Change | p. 247 |
Shaking Things Up | p. 247 |
Unofficial Classes | p. 248 |
Clubs and Organizations | p. 251 |
Participating in Governance | p. 257 |
Asking the Big Questions | p. 261 |
Acknowledgements | p. 267 |
References | p. 269 |
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