Corporatization

The Perils of Industry Funded Research
Academic Funding
November 4, 2019

The Perils of Industry Funded Research

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Academics: The Belaboured Profession
Higher Education Reform
January 12, 2018

Academics: The Belaboured Profession

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Tinkering With Symptoms: Why Britain’s Debate About Vice Chancellors’ Salaries Is Misguided
Higher Education Reform
December 13, 2017

Tinkering With Symptoms: Why Britain’s Debate About Vice Chancellors’ Salaries Is Misguided

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Does Sociology Still Matter in Britain?
Higher Education Reform
May 2, 2016

Does Sociology Still Matter in Britain?

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Why Do Academics Matter So Little in Britain’s Corporate Universities?

Why Do Academics Matter So Little in Britain’s Corporate Universities?

Corporate universities, argues our Daniel Nehring, have come to operate as self-enclosed power structures that are shielded from intellectually driven debate by their authoritarian structures and their anti-intellectual ethos.

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What’s Distinctive About Britain’s New Corporate Universities?

What’s Distinctive About Britain’s New Corporate Universities?

British universities are changing at rapid pace, notes Daniel Nehring in the first of a new series of article on the so-called corporate university. The consequences of these changes are cause of concern for many academics, who worry about their working conditions and the future of academic freedom.

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The Myth of Academic Stardom

The Myth of Academic Stardom

The recent and on-going reforms of higher education are enforcing an individualisation of academic labour. That academics would gamely play along with such a system is astonishing.

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The Branded Sociologist: Can We Still Be On Anyone’s Side?

The Branded Sociologist: Can We Still Be On Anyone’s Side?

Sociology is a brand. To survive or even thrive in the academic marketplace, sociology needs to take care of its image. But at what cost?

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Modernizing Universities?

Modernizing Universities?

Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.

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Toxic, Poisonous and Stupid: Iraq War Decision-Making Ten Years On

Toxic, Poisonous and Stupid: Iraq War Decision-Making Ten Years On

Even within its own narrow terms the Iraq war was appallingly costly. A bad decision to invade was compounded by shambolic and ineffective leadership of the warfighting itself. Why? The answer seems to lie in the ways in which contemporary large organizations behave

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“The author has asked not to be identified in case this further affects his career prospects.”

“The author has asked not to be identified in case this further affects his career prospects.”

Many PhD graduates are forced into the troubled world of unemployment while, at the same time, being denied a public voice. How is it that extremely narrow standards of professional legitimacy are used to judge young scholars who simply cannot meet them?

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