Download or read book Calling Academia to Account written by Gillian Rosemary Evans and published by Open University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with questions surrounding recent changes in the ways universities are run and funded, the way their standards are maintained, and the assumptions upon which they do their teaching and research. Addresses universities as institutions and organizations, promotion of staff, and academic judgement on degrees, with sections on calling to account in the wider world and within universities, and accounting for academic decisions. Some topics include value for money, the public interest, and the value of a degree. Evans is a historian and theologian at the University of Cambridge. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR