Towards a Reassessment and a Realignment of Higher Education: The Triumph of the Technocrat?.

Watson, Keith

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Publication Date: 1992

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Towards a Reassessment and a Realignment of Higher Education: The Triumph of the Technocrat?

Watson, Keith

Comparative Education, v28 n3 p315-22 1992

Common issues in a review of seven books related to changes in higher education were: expansions, growth, and diversity in 1960s and 1970s; convergence between technological and general academic institutions in the 1970s; institutional autonomy and the role of the state in the 1980s; and governmental pressure to conform to a commercial model of higher education in the 1990s. (KS)

Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economic Impact, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Higher Education, Research and Development, Technological Advancement

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