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| Author: | Watermeyer, R. |
| Title: | Challenges for university engagement in the UK: towards a public academe? |
| Journal: | Higher education quarterly
2011 : OCT, VOL. 65:4, p. 386-410 |
| Index terms: | United Kingdom higher education universities |
| Freeterms: | engagement |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper deals with the changing role of universities in the United Kingdom (U.K.) as they respond to an engagement agenda determining a more visible and immersive interaction btw. academics and the public. There is set out a survey of attitudes to public engagement in a selection of U.K. universities drawing on interviews with senior academics with managerial responsibility by the end of 2009. The results reflect a mood of indecision and anxiety among respondents towards a public engagement agenda seen to influence the characteristics of their professional identities and working lives. |
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