Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 A Connecticut Yankee?; Definition of the 'Modern University'; Research; Differentiation; Quality Control; Government; Post-war Developments; The Search for Revenue; A Connecticut Yankee?; Higher Education: Reactive and Proactive; The Profession versus Institution; References; 2 Strategy and Management for University Development; Introduction; The Environment of Universities; Academic Structure; Strategy; Academic Development; Research; Teaching and Learning; Technology: The Networked University; Management.
ConclusionReferences; 3 The Distributed University; A Comprehensive University; The Economic Base; The Learning Revolution; Conservatism-the Higher Education Disease; Supplier-driven Higher Education; Market-led Further Education; Cyber-solutions; A Learning Community; 4 Plato.com ; Competitiveness and the Academy; British Aerospace and the Virtual University: Establishing the Framework; Corporate Survival as a Learning Community; The Corporate University as a Coherent Strategy for Competitiveness; Plato.com: The Cyber World is Approaching Fast; References; 5 Students as Consumers.
Drivers of Change in the University of the New MillenniumDemand for Higher Education; Internationalization of Universities; Offshore Campuses; Technology; Universitas 21; Accreditation and Quality Assurance; A Vision of the Culture of the University in the New Millennium; References; 7 Reconfiguring the University; The fall?; Supercomplexity; A Leadership for Supercomplexity; Research for Supercomplexity; Teaching for Supercomplexity; Conclusion: A University for Supercomplexity; Note; References; 8 New Technologies, Students and the Curriculum; The Role and Purposes of the University.
IntroductionThe Changing Student Consumer-Beyond the Academic Playpen; The Universalization of Higher Education; Credential Saturation of the Labour Market; The Informational Division of Labour and the Knowledge Industry; Demonopolization in the Knowledge Industry; Internet Technology and its Limits; The Americanization of Higher Education-Consumer Sovereignty; Towards a Cut-and-paste Higher Education Curriculum; Intellectual Capital as Personal Property-the Political Economy of Student Consumption; Conclusion; References; 6 The Globalization of Higher Education; Introduction.
Technology Drivers-Academic BrakesInformation Access; Curricular Change; Expert Teams; Alternative Providers; Wider Participation in Higher Education; New Directions; Countering the Mere Access to Information with a Conversational Model; Delivering Individual Teaching to Larger Numbers; Disseminating Research-based Teaching; Creating the Responsive Curriculum; Enabling Individual Creativity through Adaptable Learning Activity Modules; Concluding Points; References; 9 A Profession for the New Millennium?; References; 10 The Future of Research; Research and the Diminishing Rate of Return.