"...governments of every stripe have treated universities as businesses to be managed rather than institutions of learning and curiosity. Since the 1980s, with the introduction of tertiary fees and later the performance-based research fund, higher education has folded into the logic of the market. Students are rebranded as customers..."
We’ve forgotten what universities are for | The Spinoff
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