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Universities and Sustainable Development: the necessity for barriers to change

Scott WAH & Gough SR (2007) Universities and Sustainable Development: the necessity for barriers to change; Perspectives: Policy & Practice in Higher Education; 11(4) 109–118

This paper reviews recent developments in England in relation to higher education and sustainable development, raises questions about the role that universities in a liberal democracy might have in relation to this, argues that sustainable development is an important focus for universities, but that their freedom to explore this idea in ways that make contextual sense to them and their stakeholders needs to be safeguarded against too instrumentalist and prescriptive a view which would actually serve only to inhibit the possibilities for sustainable development, and concludes that universities need to establish effective barriers if their staff and students are to have their necessary freedom to research, teach and learn protected.

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