How do we typically understand the ends or aims of higher education?
Are they obvious or contested? If we think of higher education not as a system but as a process, does the very notion of higher education, as compared to the education offered in schools and other settings, place certain parameters on a definition of educational aims of universities? Asking academics how they understand the aims or purposes of higher education will bring about different responses, for example the development of the individual student’s intellectual autonomy, the formation of general intellectual abilities and perspectives, the enhancement of the individual student’s personal character, or the development of the ability to critically comment on the host society (see also Barnett, 1992, pp.20-21). There might be alternative views and they are not necessarily mutually exclusive. But is it possible to say anything more succinct about the underlying nature of these aims that we typically associate with the idea of education at university level? Can we identify their essence
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