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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R4,317
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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Rob Watts

Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Rob Watts

Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies

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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.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies
Release date: 2017
First published: 2017
Authors: Rob Watts
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 359
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-53598-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education
Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
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LSN: 1-137-53598-9
Barcode: 9781137535986

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