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The Research Foundations of Graduate Education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japanreviewed by Harold Perkin - 1994 Title: The Research Foundations of Graduate Education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan Author(s): Burton Clark Publisher: University of California Press, Los Angeles ISBN: 0520079973, Pages: , Year: 1993 Search for book at Amazon.com Universities are the axial institutions of
postindustrial society. They are the powerhouses of the knowledge
society and manufacture the human capital that makes it so
productive. Where did their power come from, and what is happening
to them now that they cater to mass higher education, cost so much
that governments are forced to intervene, and are under threat from
rival institutions specializing in research?
Burton Clark and his colleagues in five of the most advanced
national systems of higher education have in this well-researched
volume tried to answer these questions in terms of the history and
contemporary state of research and graduate training in the
universities. They have done this for each country named in the
subtitle, at two levels: at the macro- level of national
organization and at the micro-level of the particular
disciplines.
What they have found is historically familiar and encouraging
but in current terms filled with threatening trends. Until the
nineteenth century the universities were chiefly seminaries for the
clergy and finishing schools... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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