Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Authors -- Body matter -- Stephen Prickett, Introduction -- Part I: The Mismanagement of Universities -- Bruce G. Charlton, Audit, Accountability, Quality and All That -- Anthony Smith, The Laura Spence Affair and the Contemporary Political Mind -- Evan Harris, Higher Education: A Question of Access -- Robert Grant, Education, Utility and the Universities -- Roger Scruton, The Idea of a University -- Stephen Prickett, Polyphony, the Idea of Education, and Social Utility -- Desmond Ryan, Neo-Luddism -- Part II: Testing to Destruction: The New School Environment -- Diana Mabbutt, From Board School to Boardroom -- Margaret Sutcliffe, Bureaucracy and the Growth of Anxiety in a Small Independent School -- Libby Purves, Against the Grain -- Rowan Williams, Statements, Acts and Values -- Part III: Managerial Ethics and the Corruption of the Future -- Stephen Prickett, Conclusion -- Back matter -- Also available.