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001			1015864274
005			20190524125316.0
008			180507s2018 enka b 001 0 eng d
020			_a1529200342
020			_a9781529200348
035			_a(OCoLC)1015864274
035			_a(OCoLC)on1015864274
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dCDX _dOCLCF _dMiTN
050		4	_aLC191 .B75 2018
100	1		_aBrink, Chris, _d1951-
245	1	4	_aThe soul of a university : _bwhy excellence is not enough / _cChris Brink.
264		1	_aBristol, UK : _bBristol University Press, _c2018.
300			_axix, 385 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index.
505	0		_aIntro; 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.
650		0	_aEducation, Higher _xSocial aspects.
999			_c233872 _d233872