Introduction / James Arthur -- Student character in the British university / James Arthur -- Universities of character? / Charles L. Glenn -- Community, service learning and higher education in the UK / John Annette -- Searching for a moral north star during the college years / Arthur Schwartz -- Citizenship and higher education in the UK / John Annette and Terence McLaughlin -- Character education at the university: a worthy purpose / Karen E. Bohlin -- The character of higher education / Dennis Hayes -- Developing citizenship through international exchanges / Ian Davies, Mark Evans, Peter Cunningham, Gunilla Fredriksson, Graham Pike, Hanns-Fred Rathenow, Alan Sears, Felicitas Tesch and Pam Whitty -- Textual apologism or dissent? Ethical dilemmas for academics in managerialist times / Martin Thrupp.