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Stephen Downes

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The authors write (17 page PDF), "Evident signs of dismantling the welfare state model and privatisation's accelerated processes in the sphere of education bring to the fore the need to rethink the nature of all forms of education." The survey conducted to examine this trend identifies a variety of understandings of "common good" and various ways of talking about how education contributes to it. But in general "the extent to which higher education as a common good is accomplished in a given society/country reflects the accessibility, availability, and affordability of as well as social commitment to higher education."

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