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The Public University as a Real Utopia

Towards a Renewal of Higher Education

Martin Aidnik

Covid-19 and the Universities And what about the historically public universities, the concern of this brief book? First and foremost, the pandemic brought to the fore universities as hubs of science and research. After all, it was to science that the world turned for explanations to what was transpiring. In many ways, scientists rose to […]

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Aidnik, M. (2024). The Public University as a Real Utopia: Towards a Renewal of Higher Education. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/the-public-university-as-a-real-utopia/

Martin Aidnik

Martin Aidnik currently works as a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. His scholarly interests are the sociology and philosophy of higher education and European studies. He is a member of the PaTHES Philosophy of Higher Education Society. His first book, titled The Public University as a Real Utopia (Palgrave), has just been published.

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Ontological Reflections on the Contemporary University

Being Real about the University

Ronald Barnett

A recording of the inaugural seminar in the Ontological Reflections on the Contemporary University seminar series given by Professor Ronald Barnett (19 January 2023) is available online on the PaTHES (Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society) website. Here is the abstract: To speak of ontology in the context of the university is to posit […]

Ronald Barnett

Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, University College London. He is the inaugural President of the Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education Society. His recent books include The Philosophy of Higher Education: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2022)