The soul of a university : why excellence is not enough / Chris Brink.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index.

Intro; THE SOUL OF A UNIVERSITY; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; 1. The Standard Model University; A mathematician's apology; Extrapolation; The Platonic idea of a university; The era of the ologies; Cracks in the ivory tower; 2. Rankings and League Tables; The rise of the rankers; How to build a ranking; 15 varieties of ranking; Reality check; The rankings effect; 3. Quality in Higher Education; Plato, Aristotle and are��te; Quality and standards; More like a shape than a number; Reality check; The burden of good intentions. 4. Tales of Quality, Equality and DiversityCape Town; Stellenbosch; England; Quality needs diversity; 5. Rank Order of Worth; On merit; Schools; Equal opportunity?; Mind the gap; 6. Linear Thinking; The idea of the ladder; The peril of arithmetic; Invented, not discovered; Comparison `"ranking; The poverty of linearism; 7. Another Dimension; A mathematician's contribution; Two Aristotelian precepts; Orthogonality; Lateral research; 8. Ideas of a Civic University; A sense of purpose; Redbrick and the like; Paris, 1277; Reality check; The good orthogonal to the true. Not a ladder but a landscapeEPILOGUE; On the Supreme Good (De Summo Bono); Notes; Index.