Marketization / macdonaldization of universities, emphasis on competition over collaboration, intellect over intuition, the corruption of knowledge into information are all contributing to the loss of ‘undiscovered public knowledge’ (Barr: 2007). The idea of lifelong learning is not taking roots as it should is because of these reasons. Thinking has become has extremely professionalized and consequently theorized. A trend towards fitting in everything in a sort of formula – if you do this this will be the result or otherwise is on rise. All academic units are working like a road-roller flattening all the variety and diversity of public knowledge. The language and discourse of universities are surprisingly same all over the world.
Krishna Kalyan Dixit
Plymouth
