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| Author: | Marginson, S. |
| Title: | Higher education and public good |
| Journal: | Higher education quarterly
2011 : OCT, VOL. 65:4, p. 411-433 |
| Index terms: | higher education institutions subsidies public sector private sector |
| Freeterms: | public good public goods |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Policy debate about whether to maintain public subsidies for higher education (herein as: h-e.) has stimulated reconsideration of the public mission of h-e. institutions (as: insts.), especially those providing student places granting private benefits. If the work of h-e. insts. is defined simply as the aggregation of private interests, this evaporates the rationale for h-e. insts. as distinctive social foundations with multiple public and private roles. It is questioned e.g. What is 'public' in h-e. institutions? The main notions of 'public' are herein reviewed noting the contested and politicized environment. A turn to global public goods provides the most promising strategy for re-grounding the 'public' character of h-e. |
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