Higher Education Reform

What’s Wrong With Academic Freedom in the UK?
Career
May 28, 2015

What’s Wrong With Academic Freedom in the UK?

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Giving Reviewers Some Credit: The R-index
Career
May 27, 2015

Giving Reviewers Some Credit: The R-index

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The Never-Ending Audit®
Higher Education Reform
May 13, 2015

The Never-Ending Audit®

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Divining the Future of College
Bookshelf
April 13, 2015

Divining the Future of College

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Stop Fighting Wikipedia and Co-Opt it

Stop Fighting Wikipedia and Co-Opt it

Although it’s been ruled off-limits by many academics, of sociology prof actually makes his students engage with Wikipedia — making the web safer for (looking up) social science in the process.

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Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’

Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’

The arrival of a report calling for the British government to better support social science has raised questions about the role, responses and responsibilities of a ‘public sociology.’

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A Marketplace of Ideas? Yes. A Market? No

A Marketplace of Ideas? Yes. A Market? No

Research and teaching have never been free from external constraints and public universities have long been expected to justify the resources society devotes to them. But universities feel threatened and increasingly incapable of fulfilling their primary functions.

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Freeing Biz School from the Blah-Blah-Blahs

Freeing Biz School from the Blah-Blah-Blahs

The eternal conflict between the abstract and the applicable haunts the halls of many business schools. One way to help close the gap between research and practice is to re-examine how ‘impact’ is measured in the field.

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Book Review: Rank Hypocrisies: the Insult of the REF

Book Review: Rank Hypocrisies: the Insult of the REF

Publication of the results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework evaluation of the quality of work undertaken in all UK universities last December attracted much attention. Ron Johnston reviews a book that savagely criticizes the peer reviews undertaken at the heart of the REF but also the mock exercises as universities prepared their submissions.

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Young Scholars Fear for the University of Their Future

Young Scholars Fear for the University of Their Future

Universities are at a crossroads. Pushed by governments who want institutions to dominate in the competitive, globalized world of higher education, they are also struggling with questions about academic freedom in the face of the pressures of marketization. Here a group of young PhD students argue for more debate about the kind of places universities are becoming.

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You Tell Us: Are Adjunct Professors the New Fast-Food Workers?

You Tell Us: Are Adjunct Professors the New Fast-Food Workers?

Besides fast-food workers, there is another face of low-wage workers across the country–adjunct professors. Please weigh in on this issue by responding to a story from the site Capital & Main and a survey from our friends at Pacific Standard.

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Is Higher Education Losing Its Progressive Potential?

Is Higher Education Losing Its Progressive Potential?

In the the concluding piece of his three-article look at academic labor in the UK in the wake of Marina Warner’s departure from Essex, Daniel Nehring asks if the conservative turn in education is driven by students or policy makers.

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