Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship
This book discusses the topic of graduate employability from the premise that in this era of ‘massification,’ economic austerity, and political uncertainties, higher education (HE) no longer guarantees a clear ‘work place advantage.’ Divided into three se
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Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship
Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship
Alice Diver Editor
Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship
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Editor Alice Diver School of Law Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-26341-6 ISBN 978-3-030-26342-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26342-3
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Foreword
I say that a cultivated intellect, because it is a good in itself, brings with it a power and a grace to every work and occupation which it undertakes, and enables us to be more useful, and to a greater number. There is a duty we owe to human society as such, to the state to which we belong, to the sphere in which we move, to the individuals towards whom we are variously related, and whom we successively encounter in life; and that philosophical or liberal education, as I have called it, which is the proper function of a University, if it refuses the foremost place to professional interests, does but postpone them to the formation of the citizen, and, while it subserves the larger interests of philanthropy, prepares also for the successful prosecution of those merely personal objects, which at first sight it seems to disparage. Thus, John Henry Newman in The Idea of a University—a text which, for all its canonical status, might, when read in the context of twenty-first-century academia, appear rather old-fashioned in its defence of a generalist model of liberal education, ‘aim[ed] at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying
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