British Universities in the Brexit Moment: Political, Economic and Cultural Implications
Mike Finn
University of Exeter, UK
Mike Finn
University of Exeter, UK
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781787437432
- Published:
- 10 Jan 2018
- Publisher:
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Dimensions:
- 216 pages - 129 x 198mm
- Series:
- Great Debates in Higher Education
Categories:
Mike Finn is Director of Liberal Arts and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. A past recipient of the Times Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Prize, he is a contemporary historian with an interest in education policy. His previous books include The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain After the Coalition (2015). In 2014 he founded the Centre for Education Policy Analysis at Liverpool Hope University, and he has also worked as political adviser and speechwriter in Westminster.
Accessible and passionately argued… The value of Finn’s approach is that it goes beyond the short-term material damage posed by Brexit… Rather, Brexit becomes representative of much deeper problems surrounding the mission of British universities and their conflicting roles as civic, national and global institutions. The howl of the Brexit vote becomes a symptom of a longterm decline in social cohesiveness and equality of opportunity that universities have been unwilling or unable to ameliorate.
- Philip Taylor in Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education