Review Article: Richard Frederick Heller, The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education, Springer, Singapore 2022, pp. XII+80

Abstract

Richard Frederick Heller’s book is a critique of the contemporary system of higher education, particularly Anglo-Saxon one. In his opinion, the 21^st century is developing the fourth generation of universities. Besides education, science, creating of national sense, public policies, cooperation with the external environment, we can see the commercialization of education and science, and the professionalization of university administration. In this way at the universities dominate: the commoditization of higher education, the consumerization of the university diploma, evaluation, competition between universities, managerialism, fiscalism, indicator-mania, reduction of the quality of teaching, pointosis, and grantosis. By the way, there is discrimination against foreign students.