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Non-IFUT Publications
As a service to members and other visitors to our site, we are making available a number of non-IFUT publications.
The latest edition of University World News is available here.
Previous editions of University World News are available from their
archive page.
In a recent essay in the
London Review of Books, entitled Browne's Gamble,
Stefan Collini reviews the Browne Report on the future of Higher Education in
England (Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education: An Independent
Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance by Lord Browne et al).
University World News
Every fortnight, University World News publishes a news column on
academic freedom by NEAR (Network for Education and Academic Rights). A
collection of these columns is available
here.
Browne's Gamble
"Browne is contending that we should no longer think of higher education as
the provision of a public good, articulated through educational judgment and
largely financed by public funds (in recent years supplemented by a relatively
small fee element). Instead, we should think of it as a lightly regulated market
in which consumer demand, in the form of student choice, is sovereign in
determining what is offered by service providers (ie universities)".
Professor Collini concludes his essay by remarking:
"What is at stake here is not primarily the question of whether this or
that group of graduates will pay a little more or a little less towards the
costs of their education, even though that may seem (particularly to those in
marginal seats) to be the most potent element electorally. What is at stake is
whether universities in the future are to be thought of as having a public
cultural role partly sustained by public support, or whether we move further
towards redefining them in terms of a purely economistic calculation of value
and a wholly individualist conception of 'consumer satisfaction'."
Professor Collini's essay is available
here (London Review of Books, Volume 32, Number 21,
4 November 2010, pages 23-25).
The Browne Report is available
here.
Stefan Collini is a professor of English at Cambridge University. His most recent book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.
Managerialism in Irish Universities
A recent article by Professor Steve Hedley, Faculty of Law, UCC in the Irish Journal of Legal Studies, entitled Managerialsim in Irish Universities, suggests a definition of the term managerialism, presents his research of managerialism in Irish university law and practice and sketches some of the implications for the management of Irish universities.The article is available on the Irish Journal of Legal Studies Website. It is also available here.
A clear and present danger
A recent article in Times Higher Education, entitled A clear and present danger, discusses recent threats to academic freedom.
The article is available on the Times Higher Education Website. A PDF version is also available here.
Reclaiming academia from post-academia
Philip Moriarty, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, England.
Nature Nanotechnology 3, 60 (2008)
Abstract: Post-academic science, driven as it is by commercialisation and market forces, is fundamentally at odds with core academic principles. Publicly-funded academics have an obligation to carry out science for the public good, a responsibility which is incompatible with the entrepreneurial ethos increasingly expected of university research by funding agencies.
Read the full article (pre-print) here.
Last modified: 04 September 2011.