Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe

Introducing new ideas on the relationships between the pursuit of excellence in higher education and how power is wielded in Europe and other neoliberal capitalist societies, this book emphasises how new coercive strategies, political decisions, management styles have emerged in the age of excellence in higher education.

Building on Ourania Filippakous previous work on higher education in the fields of governance, neoliberalism, university entrepreneurialism and marketization, institutional and social stratification, Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe contributes to the debate on higher education from a critical policy perspective. Introducing new ideas on the relationships between the alleged pursuit of excellence in higher education and the ways in which both deploys and reflects how power is wielded in Europe and other neoliberal capitalist societies. The term "legitimation" is here coined to emphasize how new coercive strategies, political decisions, and management styles have emerged in the age of excellence in higher education. The book concludes with a more personal reflection on the neutrality of higher education and its illusory promises.

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