This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community. It reconsiders the demand for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability.

Introduction: Reading Dearing; Chapter 1 Tuition Fees, Stakeholding and Citizenship; Chapter 2 What We Teach and What Students Learn; Chapter 3 Aims, Purposes and Principles; Chapter 4 The Normalization of Research; Chapter 5 Learning Together; Chapter 6 The Regional and Community Role of Universities; Chapter 7 The Management of Learning; Chapter 8 Economic Success ¿ How the Ufl Will Undermine the Universities¿ Contribution; Chapter 9 A Music Discourse;

Nigel Blake, Richard Smith, Paul Standish