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The Soul of a University: Why Excellence is not Enough

✍ Scribed by Chris Brink

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
176
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobility. This book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
The Next Welfare State?: UK Welfare after COVID-19
Copyright information
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of contents
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Looking backward
The welfare state as a ‘strategy of equality’
An outline of the book
1 Welfare in an age of austerity
The austerity welfare state 2010–20
Austerity? Which austerity?
Income inequality
Wealth inequality
Poverty
Child poverty
Other poverties
Social mobility
Inherited wealth
The aftermath of austerity
2 The last social democratic welfare state
The New Labour programme
New Deals
Child-contingent benefits
Pensions
Health
Education
Social exclusion
New Labour, new welfare state
Income inequality
Wealth inequality
Poverty
Social mobility
Inheritance
The New Labour record
The Third Way and the social investment state
New Labour? Old Labour?
3 Back to the future, again
‘Old’ Labour
‘Technocratic socialism’
Wise to Dalton
Evan Durbin
‘Qualitative socialism’
G.D.H. Cole
R.H. Tawney
The Keynesian case for socialism
Douglas Jay
James Meade
Tony Crosland
Conclusion
4 Future imperfect
The demographic challenge
The work challenge
The climate change challenge
Social investment and asset-based welfare
Universal Basic Income
Milanovic
Piketty
Gough
Conclusion
5 COVID-19 and after
COVID: the first year
COVID: economy and welfare
Longer COVID
COVID: paying for it
Conclusion: after COVID
Conclusion
The shape of things to come
Taxing wealth
The last word
Notes
References
Index
Back Cover

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