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Universities are living a triple crisis of hegemony, of legitimacy and institutional. This crisis is coterminous with the fiscal crisis of the state and the crisis of the welfare state. The loss of legitimacy of the welfare state gave rise to an increasing role of the market and to the change of the university from a ‘social institution’ to a mere ‘social organization’ while new managerial values seem to be replacing the traditional modes of academic governance. It is necessary for higher education to be reinvented and for academics to present again the case for higher education. But this needs to be a new case, not a restatement of the former.
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A good example of this process is given by large multinationals when they establish a new industrial plant in a developing country. They can usually squeeze a lot of money from local governments — willing to beat competition from other similar countries — either directly or as fiscal incentives. This money comes out of the ‘public fund’. Profits however are paid back as dividends to shareholders that in general live in foreign countries and no longer contribute to the ‘public fund’.
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Amaral, A., Magalhães, A. The Triple Crisis of the University and its Reinvention. High Educ Policy 16, 239–253 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300018
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