Ronald Barnett is Professor of Higher Education and Dean of Professional Development at the Institute of Education, University of. .

Ronald Barnett is Professor of Higher Education and Dean of Professional Development at the Institute of Education, University of London. His earlier books include The Idea of Higher Education, The Limits of Competence, and Higher Education: A Critical Business.

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His books include The Idea of Higher Education, The Limits of Competence, Higher Education: A Critical Business, Realizing the University and Beyond All Reason (all published by Open University Press).

This is a world in which our very frames of understanding, action and self-identity are all continually challenged. What is the place and role of the university in such a world? It is that of living by the uncertainty principle: it has to generate uncertainty, to help us live with uncertainty and even to revel in our uncertainty.

Its stated aims are to achieve its objectives by encouraging debate and publication of the policies, organisation, and management of higher education establishments.

Ronald Barnett offers nothing less than a fundamental reworking of the way in which we understand the modern university.

The university has lost its way. The world needs the university more than ever but for new reasons. If we are to clarify its new role in the world, we need to find a new vocabulary and a new sense of purpose. Ronald Barnett offers nothing less than a fundamental reworking of the way in which we understand the modern university. Realizing the University is essential reading for all those concerned about the future of higher education. Education, Higher Aims and objectives Universities and colleges Philosophy Postmodernism and education.

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Michael Young (Emeritus Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University of London). There have been two common strands in my work- the un-realised potential of sociology as a way of understanding education and the central importance of knowledge. I began my educational career as a secondary school science teacher, studying for a second undergraduate degree in sociology part time. Main books (1971)Knowledge and Control- Collier Macmillan (1998)The Curriculum of the Future- Routledge (2008) Bringing knowledge back in(Routledge).