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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

Watts, Rob

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies

General Education

ISBN10: 1137535989
ISBN13: 9781137535986
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 2 2017
Pages: 359
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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'.

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