Ideal or Reality:the Dilemma of the Universities in the UK
The university is the place in which general knowledge is discovered and taught,which is the idea of Oxford University and Cambridge University on behalf of Medieval European Universities.It embodies ideal university activity,which is accepted by all the universities in the UK and guides British higher education toward homogenization.Since the 1980s,with social environment having taken place and the governance pattern having been exchanged,the traditional university ideal is encountering severe challenges;the university is regarded as the place in which "useful knowledge" is produced.This kind of policy orientation makes the British universities faced with many puzzlement and dilemma.It needs to be paid more attention by the policymakers,or it would cause damage to British higher education.