Open AccessThe Business Studies University: Turning higher education into further education
Author(s) -
Patrick Ainley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
london review of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1474-8479
pISSN - 1474-8460
DOI - 10.18546/lre.14.1.10
Subject(s) - higher education , competition (biology) , hierarchy , discipline , business education , undergraduate education , sociology , modular design , mathematics education , political science , pedagogy , management , economics , psychology , computer science , social science , medical education , law , medicine , ecology , biology , operating system
This paper argues that changes to both further and higher education that are already well underway are clarified by what can be called the model of the Business Studies University (BSU). The BSU elevates undergraduate student choice of equivalent level modular courses to the 'heart of the system' (DBIS, 2011). This is rejected by those few institutions not part of the current competition to cram in funded students; instead, they adhere to traditional academic disciplinary knowledge. As a result, at one pole of a bifurcating hierarchy higher turns into further education, with 'cramming' for academic higher education at the other.