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Mon 02 Feb 2009Third-level revolution sees conformity replace creativity
OPINION:Excellence in research and teaching is being replaced in universities by the employment demands of the labour market. Academic freedom is under threat, writes ANDREAS HESS.
ALMOST 100 years ago, the maverick economist Thorstein Veblen was the first to take notice of the prevalence of “received schemes of use and want” and how they made their way into higher education. For Veblen, the new attitude had its origins in the conditions of the state of the industrial arts, eg the requirements imposed by a new system of ownership and its pecuniary values.
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