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Book SynopsisThis 2004 book tells the success story of the modern research university in Europe and its expansion to other continents. By focusing on the freedom of scientific research, teaching and study, the medieval university structure was modernised and enabled discoveries to become a professional, bureaucratically-regulated activity of the university.
Trade Review'This volume can be read with profit by anyone interested in the development of higher education.' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsForeword Walter Rüegg; Part I. Themes and Patterns: 1. Themes Walter Rüegg; 2. Patterns Christopher Charle; Part II. Structures: 3. Relations with authority Paul Gerbod; 4. Resources and management Paul Gerbod; 5. Teachers Matti Klinge; 6. The diffusion of European models outside Europe Edward Shils and John Roberts; Part III. Students: 7. Admission Fritz Ringer; 8. Student movements Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos; 9. Graduation and careers Konrad H. Jarausch; Part IV. Learning: 10. Theology and the arts Walter Rüegg; 11. History and the social sciences Asa Briggs; 12. The mathematical and the exact sciences Paul Blockstaele; 13. Biological and geosciences Anto Leikola; 14. Medicine Antonie M. Luyendijk-Elshout; 15. Technology Anna Guagnini; Epilogue: universities and war in the twentieth century Notker Hammerstein.
