The Goals of Universities is a valuable contribution to the everlasting debate about what universities should be trying to achieve. The author does not argue that certain goals should be adopted and others rejected; the intention rather is to provide readers with the resources to form their own conclusions.
This is a book which will be of interest not just to academics but to parents, students, employers, and politicians – in short, to everyone who is concerned with the purposes of higher education, in any country in the world.
‘This is a splendid book. It has gaps, errors, and does not, cannot, answer all the questions it raises, but it is timely, pertinent, provocative, critical and a long overdue attempt to ask of universities: what on earth are you doing?’ John Pratt in Higher Education Management
‘Michael Allen has produced a book which is easy and even entertaining to read, sufficiently informative without being suffocating in its detail, comprehensive yet well structured and coherent.’ Janet Grant in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
