In this highly original work, Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world of which he is part and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture. The ...

This blueprint provides a new framework within which to attempt to understand and to plan library services in the future.

In The Academic Tribes, an English professor who has survived stints as a dean and a vice-chancellor "takes a gentle, satiric sideswipe at academia, its foibles, follies, and ...

Throughout the industrialised world, universities have undergone remarkable changes since the mid-1980s. In Australia, interest has been intense, and publication of The ...

In 1963, the Committee on Higher Education, chaired by Lord Robbins published their report on the state of higher education in the U.K. with attendant recommendations--chiefly ...

FROST (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.

The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries ...