The Enquiring University. Rowland, Stephen. Open University Press, ISBN 0335216021, October 2006, 176 pages.

The book explores the relation among teaching, research and learning and their place in a wider social context. Some of the central questions raised in The Enquiring University are:

• What is the purpose of higher education?
• How do teaching and research relate?
• How can the intellectual purposes of higher education be restored?

The author develops a conception of enquiry, which can play a central role in the understanding of academic work. The concept values the academic tradition of a love for the subject, encouraging at the same time exploration across disciplinary and other cultural boundaries.