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Reclaiming the University for the Public Good

Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education

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Editors:
  1. Malcolm Noble

    1. Leicester Vaughan College, Leicester, UK

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  2. Cilla Ross

    1. Co-operative College, Manchester, UK

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  • Offer concrete examples of alternative higher education
  • Asks how we can reclaim the university for the public good using co-operative structures
  • Argues the university sector is in crisis, evidenced by the 2017 UK Higher Education Research Act and the 2018 University and College Union strikes

Part of the book series: Palgrave Critical University Studies (PCU)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Now Is the Time for Co-operative Higher Education

    • Malcolm Noble, Cilla Ross
    Pages 1-22

  3. Useable Pasts for a Co-operative University: As Different as Light from Darkness?

    • Tom Woodin
    Pages 23-43

  4. Establishing and Sustaining Co-operative Universities and Co-operative Higher Education in International Contexts: Challenges and Possibilities

    • Amanda Benson, Cilla Ross
    Pages 45-66

  5. Prefiguring the Idea of the University: What Can Be Learned from Autonomous Learning Spaces That Have Experimented with No-Fee, Alternative Forms of Higher Education in the UK?

    • Gary Saunders
    Pages 67-89

  6. The Social Science Centre, Lincoln: Free, Co-operative Higher Education

    • Members of the SSC
    Pages 91-107

  7. The RED Learning Co-operative: Research, Education and Development for Social Change

    • Fenella Porter, Tracy Walsh
    Pages 109-124

  8. Phoenix from the Ashes: The Origins and Development of Leicester Vaughan College

    • Lucy Faire, Miriam Gill
    Pages 125-144

  9. The Co-operative Intellect: Journeys in Radical Human Ecology

    • Luke Devlin, Svenja Meyerricks, Anne Winther
    Pages 145-167

  10. The Co-operative as Site of Pedagogy: The Example of Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative

    • Pablo Perez Ruiz, Mike Shaw
    Pages 169-183

  11. Co-operative Research and Research Co-operatives

    • Thomas Swann
    Pages 185-204

  12. Massive Open Online Course u.lab: Creating Transformational Learning in Scotland

    • Anne Winther, Valerie Jackman, Keira Oliver
    Pages 205-225

  13. Collaging with Co-operators: An Arts-Based Inquiry into Member Perceptions of Co-operative Higher Education

    • Hannah Bland
    Pages 227-246

  14. Seeking a Co-operative University: Reconstructing Adult Education and Reclaiming Higher Education as a Public Good

    • Malcolm Noble, Cilla Ross
    Pages 247-256

  15. Afterword: A Student Responds

    • Sally Birch
    Pages 257-261

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 263-271
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About this book

This book asks how we can reclaim the university for the public good. The editors and contributors argue that the sector is in crisis, accelerated by the passing of the UK Higher Education Research Act in 2017 and made visible during the University and College Union strikes in April 2018. In response to this, there are widespread demands to reclaim the university and protect education as a public good, using co-operative structures. Taking an interdisciplinary and social justice perspective, the editors and contributors offer concrete examples of alternative higher education: in doing so, analysing how the future of the university can be recovered. This intersectional volume discusses a broad range of approaches to higher education while disseminating new ideas. It will be of interest and value to those disenchanted with the current state of higher education in the UK and beyond, as well as activists and policy makers. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Leicester Vaughan College, Leicester, UK

    Malcolm Noble

  • Co-operative College, Manchester, UK

    Cilla Ross

About the editors

Malcolm Noble teaches and researches at Leicester Vaughan College, a Community Benefit Society, UK.



Cilla Ross is Vice-Principal of the Co-operative College CIO, UK.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reclaiming the University for the Public Good

  • Book Subtitle: Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education

  • Editors: Malcolm Noble, Cilla Ross

  • Series Title: Palgrave Critical University Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21625-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21624-5Published: 02 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21627-6Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21625-2Published: 11 December 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2662-7329

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-7337

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education

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