“It is not the transmittable content that matters, but the questions that universities encourage students to ask of themselves and their society, and which a genuine higher education helps them to answer.” —Steven Jones 🎓

“In England, further education—with its ‘more of the same’ implications—is distinct from higher education in terms of policy and governance, even though many further education colleges deliver higher education. The borders become more porous still if we accept that a core purpose of higher education is to further society: taking ideas further, pushing students further, exploring possibilities further. In his 2007 book, A Will to Learn, Ronald Barnett refers on nineteen occasions to the notion of a genuine higher education. The distinction made is that between university-based learning which truly involves raising the students to new levels of thinking and that which is more concerned with satisfying and credentialising its customers. The higherness of higher education, according to Barnett (2007, 63), emerges from a ‘stubborn will-to-learn’, with universities framed as environments in which students are challenged, facilitated and nurtured. It is not the transmittable content that matters, but the questions that universities encourage students to ask of themselves and their society, and which a genuine higher education helps them to answer. This characterisation corresponds with my attention to integrity in the following chapters.”--Steven Jones

 

Quoted from Universities Under Fire 🔥 Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education by Steven Jones dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96107-7

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