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The Commodification of Tertiary Education within a Knowledge Economy
Abstract
This paper investigates the relationships between globalization, the knowledge economy and “rent-seeking” culpability in tertiary education. It discusses current issues and debates about the knowledge economy, asserting that knowledge has now emerged as a new factor of production in global capitalism.
The debate about the effectiveness of universities is re-positioned by refocusing critical debate on the first of many issues involved - education as an economic commodity. The other issues which need closer scrutiny are the emergence of mass universities; commercial subservience to industry; changes in organizational governance; knowledge creation processes; the institutional impact of new technology; life-time learning; and post-graduate management training.
Recommended Citation
Dreyer, Wayne and Kouzmin, Alexander
(2009)
"The Commodification of Tertiary Education within a Knowledge Economy,"
Journal of Economic and Social Policy:
Vol. 13:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/jesp/vol13/iss1/1
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