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	<title>Knowledge Rules &#187; Political economy of higher education</title>
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		<title>The Viridiana Jones Chronicles (8): The Retreat from the Premise that the State Should be the Provider of Education for the Populace</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/28/the-chronicles-of-viridiana-jones-8-the-retreat-from-the-premise-that-the-state-should-be-the-provider-of-education-for-the-populace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Mirowski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been some interesting analyses of what has been happening to higher education emanating from the beleaguered departments of education, themselves caught in the cross-hairs of the business consultants hired to slim down and streamline the modern university. By sharp contrast with the economists, these analysts approach what has been happening to science and higher education as a subset of larger political movement, one which seeks to re-engineer democracy by privatizing one of the largest sectors of state expenditure, namely, the provision of education. In short, universities are being exhorted to become more like corporations – to regard their products as “information” and “human capital”, to treat their students more like consumers – as a prelude for the state to withdraw from responsibility for the provision of education.]]></description>
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		<title>The Global U Phenomenon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ross</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As universities are increasingly exposed to the rough justice of the market, their institutional life is distinguished more by the rate of change than by the observance of custom and tradition. Few examples illustrate this better than the rush, in recent years, to establish overseas programs and branch campuses. Since 9/11, the pace of offshoring has surged and is being pursued across the entire spectrum of institutions that populate the higher education landscape, from the ballooning for-profit sectors and online diploma mills to land grant universities to the most elite, ivied colleges. No single organization has attained the operational status of a global university, after the model of the global corporation, but it may only be a matter of time before we see the current infants of that species take their first, unaided steps.]]></description>
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