Higher Education Reform

The Never-Ending Audit®: Questioning the Lecturer Experience
Higher Education Reform
October 12, 2016

The Never-Ending Audit®: Questioning the Lecturer Experience

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Take Away Tenure, and Professors Become Sheep
Higher Education Reform
October 7, 2016

Take Away Tenure, and Professors Become Sheep

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Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science
Higher Education Reform
October 4, 2016

Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science

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The Soviet System, Neoliberalism and British Universities
Higher Education Reform
September 27, 2016

The Soviet System, Neoliberalism and British Universities

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How Statistics Are Twisted to Obscure Public Understanding

How Statistics Are Twisted to Obscure Public Understanding

We likely all remember the maxim about statistics and lies. Statistical data do not allow for lies so much as semantic manipulation, explains Jonathan Goodman. In short, numbers drive the misuse of words.

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The Transformation of UK Higher Education Since 1968

The Transformation of UK Higher Education Since 1968

Since the heyday of the student movement in the late 1960s policy decisions in the United Kingdom have mostly pushed universities into neoliberal boxes that ill-fit the needs of students and the society at large, argues Hugo Radice.

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Recognition for Peer Review: Who’s Doing What?

Recognition for Peer Review: Who’s Doing What?

To help celebrate Peer Review Week 2016, the steering committee for the commemoration asked the 20+ organisations on the group to tell us how they #recognizereview and what more they hope to do in future. Their responses show a clear understanding of the importance of peer review and a firm commitment to supporting more recognition for review in future.

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Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech Must be Protected and Respected

Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech Must be Protected and Respected

This is an extract from a speech made by Valerie Amos, director of the SOAS, for the Menzies Oration on Higher Education at the University of Melbourne on September 14.

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Emotionalisation, Neoliberalism and Academic Freedom in US

Emotionalisation, Neoliberalism and Academic Freedom in US

The boundaries of academic freedom in the US have shifted, argues Sam Binkley. What is at stake now is not only the freedom to think, speak and generate knowledge, but the freedom, even the requirement that one becomes a certain kind of person in order to think and speak in certain kinds of ways.

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Introduction: Academic Freedom in Crisis

Introduction: Academic Freedom in Crisis

An introduction to a series of short essays exploring contemporary issues of academic freedom from a range of perspectives, focusing both on British and international trends.

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University Decolonization: More Than Mere Iconoclasm

University Decolonization: More Than Mere Iconoclasm

The decolonization debate in African universities raises critical issues about the relationship between power, knowledge and learning, argues Ahmed Essop. It also provides an opportunity to rethink the role of universities in social and economic development and in fashioning a common nation.

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Is Peer Review an Achilles Heel for Interdisciplinary Work?

Is Peer Review an Achilles Heel for Interdisciplinary Work?

Recent findings suggest interdisciplinary research is less likely to be funded than discipline-based research proposals, reports Gabriele Bammer, who argues different review processes may well be required to do justice to these different kinds of interdisciplinarity. 

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