Higher Education and the Student

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From welfare state to neoliberalism

By Robert Troschitz

Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education

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Higher Education and the Student by Robert Troschitz explores the transformation of Britain's higher education system under neoliberal influence, particularly in England. The book examines the shift of universities towards business-like entities and the reconceptualisation of students as customers. Drawing on extensive analysis of government documents, academic publications, and student perspectives from the 1940s to the present, it reveals how the notion of the student has evolved alongside changes in higher education policy and philosophy.
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This book is ideal for scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students focused on higher education, educational policy and politics, and the history and sociology of education.

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As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system over the last decades. Universities have increasingly been required to act like businesses, and students are frequently referred to as customers nowadays. Higher Education and the Student investigates precisely this relation between the changing function of higher education and what we consider the term ‘student’ to stand for.

Based on a detailed analysis of government papers, reports, and speeches as well as publications by academics and students, the book explores how the student has been conceptualised within the debate on higher education from the birth of the British welfare state in the 1940s until today. It thus offers a novel assessment of the history of higher education and shows how closely the concept of the student and the way we comprehend higher education are intertwined. Higher Education and the Student opens up a new perspective that can critically inform public debate and future policy – in Britain and beyond.

The book should be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of higher education; educational policy and politics; and the philosophy, sociology, and history of higher education.