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Shaping for Mediocrity

Shaping for Mediocrity

Harvie, David
Burrell, Gibson
Hartz, Ronald

Paperback

General EducationGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 180341796X
ISBN13: 9781803417967
Publisher: Zer0 Books
Published: Sep 1 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what was simultaneously an attack on academic freedom and trade union organisation. The authors of Shaping for Mediocrity not only had front-row seats in the campaign against these mass redundancies, they were in the ring - both as targeted employees and as trade union officers and negotiators. Shaping for Mediocrity tells the inside story of these attacks and the campaign against them. It situates this story within a longer history of struggle to make the university a place where critical thinking is possible, showing how events in Leicester are both reflective of higher education in the UK following four decades of neoliberal 'reform' and a particularly egregious instance of the increasingly authoritarian management of public institutions such as universities.

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