Death of the Public University?

Death of the Public University?Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them entrepreneurial, efficient and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue excellence and innovation, many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the critic and conscience of society. Drawing on a

providing a new basis for spiritual discipline and for a pacific mortality that could reverse the militarism of modernity

What will it take to protect the global environment

and shows its influence on later Chinese philosophy

For many people growing old means facing one or more chronic diseases

the transformative 1984 Games in Los Angeles

A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea

their location referenced to their corresponding map pages

Fisher finds the universal in the distinctive

" - Jonathan Allen

the eighth-century monk whose own epitome of Festus formed part of the resurgence of interest in ancient Roman culture at the court of Charlemagne

compared with the anarchy of the years immediately preceding

including the intimate details of his relationships