The marketisation and instrumentalisation of British higher education
By Andrew Chitty
John Mullen, who teaches at Université de Paris 12, has posted a report on the current protest movement in the French universities:
French universities exploding in anger
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Recent critical comment
University 'market' is a con, Stefan Collini, Comment is Free, Guardian, 19 August 2011
Producers, not consumers, Peter Geoghegan, Times Higher Education, 28 April 2011
This is no place for slogans (letter), Times Higher Education, 21 April 2011
Don't put democracy at risk (letter), Gideon Calder and 68 others, Observer, 3 April 2011
Research must not be tied to politics, Stefan Collini, Comment is Free, Guardian, 1 April 2011
Don't play politics with academic freedom, James Ladyman, New Statesman Blogs, 30 March 2011
After Browne, Iain Pears, London Review of Books, 17 March 2011
Libya and the hand that feeds, Susil Gupta, Counterpunch, 2 March 2011
The grim threat to British universities, Simon Head, New York Review of Books, 13 January 2011
The death of universities, Terry Eagleton, Comment is Free, Guardian, 17 December 2010
Silence is deadly, Aeron Davis, Times Higher Education, 2 December 2010
Fair, progressive and good value?, Million+, 30 November 2010
Why the humanities remain highly relevant, Iain Pears, Comment is Free, Guardian, 29 November 2010
Changing interests, Gareth Dale, Times Higher Education, 18 November 2010
Student fees protests: the real vandals, Priyamvada Gopal, Guardian, 13 November 2010
The utilitarian fallacy, Gerald Pillay, Times Higher Education, 12 November 2010
Browne's gamble, Stefan Collini, London Review of Books, 4 November 2010
Point of impact, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Times Higher Education, 26 August 2010
On to Middlesex, Iain Pears, 2 May 2010
Lost children of the audit revolution, Stephen Logan, Times Higher Education, 18 April 2010
'Universities are not businesses', Iain Pears, Times Higher Education, 1 April 2010
Why university standards have fallen, Geoffrey Alderman, Comment is Free, Guardian , 10 March 2010
Britain: the disgrace of the universities, Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books, 9 March 2010
The paleographer and the managers, Iain Pears, 27 February 2010
Good for business, Ross McGibbin, Times Literary Supplement, 25 February 2010
Goodbye to blue skies research? Francis O'Gorman, Guardian, 19 December 2009
The worst of all worlds, Sally Hunt, Times Higher Education, 3 December 2009
Poisonous impact, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Times Higher Education, 3 December 2009
Impact on humanities, Stefan Collini, Times Literary Supplement, 13 November 2009
Academic critiques (Britain)
'Cognitive capitalism' and the rat-race: how capital measures immaterial labour in British universities, DeAngelis and Harvie, 2009 (subscription) (alternative source)
Reclaiming academia from post-academia, Philip Moriarty, January 2008 [pdf] (see also interview)
The English Question or Academic Freedoms, Thomas Docherty, 2007 (see also interview)
Education plc, Stephen Ball, 2007 (see also review)
Universities in a Neoliberal World, Alex Callinicos, 2006 (see also review)
Commons and communities in the university: some notes and some examples, David Harvie, 2004
Killing Thinking: The Death of the University, Mary Evans, 2004 (paperback 2005)
Marketizing higher education: neoliberal strategies and counter-strategies, Les Levidow, 2002 [pdf]
Management Fads in Higher Education, Robert Birnbaum, 2000
Education in an Age of Nihilism, Nigel Blake et al., 2000
Audit Cultures, ed. Marilyn Strathern, 2000
Academic critiques (international)
Anthropologies of University Reform, special issue of Social Anthropology, February 2010 (subscription)
Universities, Corporatization and Resistance, special issue of New Proposals, February 2010 Unmaking the Public University, Christopher Newfield, 2008 Revisiting the university front, Lock and Lorenz, 2007 [pdf] University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education, Jennifer Washburn, 2005 (see also interview) Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State and Higher Education, Slaughter and Rhoades, 2004 (see also review) Commodification of education and academic labour, Lawrence and Sharma, 2002 (subscription) The University in Ruins, Bill Readings, 1996 Official statements Students at the heart of the system, Government White paper, June 2011 We inhabit a changed world, and it is our duty to engage with it, Philip Esler, 30 April 2009 Blue skies spending and sterling support, Keith Mason, 24 April 2008 The future is bright, Philip Esler, 27 March 2008 Wellcome Trust speech, John Denham, 29 February 2008 Official documents The Allocation of Science and Research Funding, BIS, December 2010 [pdf] The Browne Review: Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education in England, October 2010 Innovation Nation, White Paper, DIUS, 13 March 2008 [pdf] A New 'University Challenge', consultation document, DIUS, 3 March 2008 [pdf] The Sainsbury Review: The Race to the Top, October 2007 [pdf] Increasing the Economic Impact of Research Councils: An Action Plan, RCUK, January 2007 Leitch Review of Skills, DIUS, December 2006 Increasing the Economic Impact of Research Councils, RCUK, August 2006 The Warry Report: Increasing the Economic Impact of Research Councils, July 2006 [pdf] Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-2014, HM Treasury, July 2004 The Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration, HM Treasury, December 2003 The Future of Higher Education, White Paper, DCSF, January 2003 [pdf] Official websites Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee Research Council delivery plans 2011-2015 The Haldane Principle Statement by David Willetts on the Haldane Principle, 20 December 2010
The Haldane Report, 1918 (see pp. 31-35)
See also the references in Andrew Chitty, Burying the Haldane Principle, 1 April 2011
