Public Universities Managerialism And The Value Of Higher Education

Author : Rob Watts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137535997
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education written by Rob Watts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell education and research in a competitive market. This engaging and provocative book argues that this is not actually the case. Drawing on lived experience, Watts asserts that the reality is actually a consequence of contradictory government policy and new public management whose exponents talk and act ‘as-if’ universities have become businesses. The result of which is ‘market crazed governance’, whereby universities are subjected to expensive rebranding and advertising campaigns and the spread of a toxic culture of customer satisfaction surveys which ask students to evaluate their teachers and what they have learned, based on government ‘metrics’ of research ‘quality’. This has led to a situation where not only the normal teacher-student relationship is inverted, academic professional autonomy is eroded and many students are short-changed, but where universities are becoming places whose leaders are no longer prepared to tell the truth and too few academics are prepared to insist they do. An impassioned and methodical study, this book will be of great interest to academics and scholars in the field of higher education and education policy.

Author : Rosemary Deem
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199265909
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism written by Rosemary Deem and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors analyse changes in the management of recent professional academic work in British universities, examine the implications of mass higher education, and look at the impact of 'new managerialism' in 'knowledge-intensive' organisations.

Author : Alberto Amaral
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401000727
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Higher Education Managerial Revolution? written by Alberto Amaral and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a unique comparative analysis of the emergence of managerialism in eleven different countries, this book examines the response and adaptation of higher education institutions to their external environments. It addresses the key question of how changes in management thinking and practice are affecting internal institutional dynamics and is relevant to scholars and students, institutional managers, government officials, university administrators and university board members.

Author : Malcolm Noble
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303021625X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming the University for the Public Good written by Malcolm Noble and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks how we can reclaim the university for the public good. The editors and contributors argue that the sector is in crisis, accelerated by the passing of the UK Higher Education Research Act in 2017 and made visible during the University and College Union strikes in April 2018. In response to this, there are widespread demands to reclaim the university and protect education as a public good, using co-operative structures. Taking an interdisciplinary and social justice perspective, the editors and contributors offer concrete examples of alternative higher education: in doing so, analysing how the future of the university can be recovered. This intersectional volume discusses a broad range of approaches to higher education while disseminating new ideas. It will be of interest and value to those disenchanted with the current state of higher education in the UK and beyond, as well as activists and policy makers.

Author : Kathleen Lynch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137007230
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Managerialism in Education written by Kathleen Lynch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact of neo-liberal reform on the traditional caring ethos of public services such as education, exploring how these reforms influence the appointment and experiences of senior management across the education sector.

Author : Douglas M. Priest
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253347351
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatization and Public Universities written by Douglas M. Priest and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely book on an important subject for the future of higher education in America

Author : Richard Frederick Heller
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811665060
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education written by Richard Frederick Heller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities have become over-managed business enterprises which may not reflect societal, national, or global educational needs. From there, it proposes some solutions, including three innovative programs, that make universities more responsive to needs, as well as reduce their impact on the environment. The central idea of this book is developing the ‘Distributed University,’ which distributes education to where it is needed, reducing local and global inequalities in access, and emphasizing local relevance in place of large centralized campuses, with a low impact on the environment. It emphasizes the distribution of trust in place of managerialism and collaboration in place of competition. By focusing on distributing education online, this book discusses how the higher education sector can be set up to adapt to the changes in the ways we work and learn today, and which will be required to adapt to and take advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Author : Zoe Hope Bulaitis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030378926
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Value and the Humanities written by Zoe Hope Bulaitis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the humanities against economic rationalism, Zoe Hope Bulaitis constructs a nuanced map of the intersections of value in the humanities, encompassing an exploration of policy engagement, scientific discourses, fictional representation, and the humanities in public life. The book articulates a kaleidoscopic range of humanities practices which demonstrate that although recent policy encourages higher education to be entirely motivated by outcomes, fiscal targets, and the acquisition of employability skills, the humanities continue to inspire and aspire beyond these limits. This book is a historically-grounded and theoretically-informed analysis of the value of the humanities within the context of the market.

Author : Kelly Freebody
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303026484X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice written by Kelly Freebody and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the concepts of social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion can be understood within the context of higher education. While terms such as these are often in common use in universities, they are not always used with clarity and precision. The editors and contributors offer a serious and detailed examination of pressing contemporary concerns around ‘social justice’ across politics, practice and pedagogy in order to encourage hard thinking and practical agenda setting for social-justice oriented research, teaching and community engagement. Drawing upon new theoretical work, research projects and innovative university teaching, this book offers both useful theoretical insights and practical possibilities for action. This collective and collaborative volume will be of interest and value to all those interested in promoting social justice, in particular how it can be promoted within the university setting.

Author : Łukasz Sułkowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000875946
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Digital University written by Łukasz Sułkowski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, given the fundamental importance of the radical change taking place, it seems that the most appropriate name, reflecting the essence of the emerging new formation, is "digital university." This is because of the importance of digital transformation, which has been developing for several decades, bringing deep and multidirectional changes in the areas of technology, economy, society, and culture. It is a disruptive civilizational transition and, although stretched over many decades, it is revolutionary in nature, significantly changing our lives in the Anthropocene. The book has three cognitive and pragmatic objectives: to provide a new perspective on the changing academic organization and management; to reflect on higher education management concepts and methods; and to present an overview of university management, governance, and leadership, useful from the perspective of academic managers, and other stakeholders. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.