Further Research Needed podcast

Are universities businesses?

4/7/2021

Further Research Needed

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This week on Further Research Needed we tackle the question: Are universities businesses? Changes in how universities behave will have far-reaching consequences for education, research and public services. We discuss if unis are getting more commercial than in the past and why they would want to in the first place.

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