A Manifesto for the Public University (Paperback)

After years of quiet preparation, the Blitzkrieg against the public university is unfolding across such a massive front that no one scholar can stake out an adequate line of defence. In this timely volume, a company of leading experts sketches the cultural and intellectual fortifications needed to protect on of the world's best public university systems from serious and possibly irreparable damage. - Howard Hotson, Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History, University of Oxford, UK

It is no exaggeration that British universities are confronting their most substantial challenge since the Robbins Report set out the basis for public higher education in 1963. These essays re-state, in sharp and contemporary terms, the case for the development and dissemination of knowledge as a public good. - Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford, UK

This collection of essays by senior academics from a variety of disciplines should be read by anyone concerned about the future of higher education. The case they make for the public benefits derived from universities and therefore for public funding to be maintained is compelling. - Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, UK

Following the 2010 announcement of what John Holmwood so accurately describes as the privatizing of undergraduate education, all that was once solid in higher education in Britain, if not yet melting into air, is now far more uncertain. In this balanced, calmly and carefully argued collection of chapters the case for something far better than what undergraduates are about to be offered is made. - Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, NZ