Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University Routledge Research in Higher Education Series
Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal Universityinvestigates the impact of neoliberalism on academics in today?s universities. Considering the experiences of early career researchers as well as more experienced academics, it outlines the changing nature of working life in the university precipitated by the reality of de-professionalisation, worsening conditions of employment, and general precarious existence.
The book traces the dramatic shift in the role and function of universities and academics over the last forty years. It considers how capitalist neoliberalism drives universities to operate like businesses in a cut-throat financialised education market place. Uniquely the book then provides a possible alternative in the form of the National Education Service (NES) and what this alternative system could look like.
Thought-provoking and relevant, this book will be of use to postgraduate students as well as new, emerging, and established academics interested in the current state of higher education, academic life, and possibilities for the future.
1. The Neoliberal Capitalism and Education. 2. Neoliberalisation of the University and Academic Work. 3. Reality for New and Prospective Academics, and Postgraduate Students. 4. Struggle for a New Reality.
Alpesh Maisuria is a senior lecturer in Education Studies at the University of East London, UK.
Svenja Helmes is a researcher at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Date de parution : 06-2021
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 10-2019
13.8x21.6 cm
Mots-clés :
UK High Education System; Quantification Game; Neoliberalism; UK Counterpart; Academic life; Education System; Early career researchers; Direct Democracy; Postdoctoral students; Contemporary Society; Higher education; Vice Versa; University; Long Term Political Project; National Education Service; Neoliberal University; de-professionalisation; Danny Dorling; neoliberal capitalism; Human Capital Interest; Dominant Political Hegemony; Neoliberal Capitalist System; Critical Revolutionary Pedagogues; Tef; Ref; Prospective Academics; Co-operative University; Academics Anonymous; Neoliberal Education System; NES; Russell Group Universities; Varying Specialist Inputs; SSC; University Learning Experience