"All stakeholder groups are in favour of compulsory courses," write the authors, "but the motives differ. Students, management, and government embrace an institutional perspective on educational development.... University teachers, on the other hand, have a more individual-oriented view." To understand this, they write, we can turn to the ideologies of education. "Does education fulfil a higher purpose of liberating the human mind and making the world a better place to live in, or is education primarily about producing economic growth and welfare?" Interestingly, "the social efficiency ideology view of all stakeholders except the teachers indicates an instrumentalist view of teaching."
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