Download Consumer Experience of Higher Education: The Rise of Capsule by Deirdre McArdle-Clinton PDF

March 27, 2017 | College University Education

By Deirdre McArdle-Clinton

This paintings examines the philosophy underpinning present better schooling provision. modern tradition turns out to inspire shoppers to buy items the place the product is formed via the supplier and the enter of the patron is particularly constrained. learn means that scholars, their perceptions formed through the tutorial event they've got passed through, view schooling as a commodity and require that details be packaged for simple intake. the aim of this learn is to check the present scenario in schooling opposed to the backdrop of an rising pattern that sees schooling as a product and scholars as shoppers or clients. The literature offers a foundation to argue qualification now could be usually a simulacrum whereas formerly it represented wisdom and competency.

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