Universities Under Fire
Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 264
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Palgrave Critical University Studies
- EAN: 9783030961060
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Jones, Steven
This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector internalised the language and logic of government policy, and individual institutions then set about normalising competition and gaming short-term advantage at the expense of collectively serving a common good. A flawed marketisation project was attended and sustained by hostile discourses, with purportedly woke universities becoming a soft target for right-leaning politicians and media commentators, and campuses reluctant battlefields for manufactured culture wars. Within this context, integrity deficits soon arose: universities bragged about diversity and social responsibility without commensurate action; global ambitions went unmatched by local accountability; senior management grew more distant and self-rewarding as contractual precarity increased for frontline sta