How the Market Economy Is Undermining HE Performance

Autor/inn/en	Jamieson, Ian; Naidoo, Rajani
Titel	How the Market Economy Is Undermining HE Performance
Quelle	In: Management in Education, 18 (2004) 4, S.13-16 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0892-0206
DOI	10.1177/08920206040180040301
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Academic Freedom; Free Enterprise System; Graduates; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; Administration; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Akademische Freiheit; Freie Wirtschaft; Graduate; Absolvent; Absolventin; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Ausland; Globales Denken; Verwaltung; Großbritannien
Abstract	In this article, the authors assert that the leadership and management of higher education is now operating in a fundamentally different context and ideological terrain to the one that existed up to the 1980s, and that this is now materially affecting the core function of universities--learning, teaching, and research. The dominating frame of reference is the neo-liberal project and the primacy of the market. This is not a parochial phenomenon that only affects UK universities; on the contrary, it is intimately connected to globalisation and the activities of international agencies operating under a neo-liberal framework, like the World Trade Organisation (and its associated GATs agreements), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. These global narratives have been taken up strongly by recent UK governments, from Thatcher to Blair. They have translated into a political project that sees it necessary for universities to contribute in a more direct manner to enhancing Britain's place in the global market place. This is to be achieved partly by increasing the total number of graduates in the population, but also by unleashing forces which will orientate both the curriculum, and learning and teaching in a more vocational direction, thus producing graduates with relevant skills to compete in the new global knowledge economy. The neo-liberal project would be a difficult one to accomplish by government edict, certainly in the UK where the traditions of university autonomy and academic freedom are very strong. The change mechanism, however, is both more subtle and more blunt than the actions of a centralist government. The change mechanism is the introduction of the market into higher education. While this is all pervasive, in this article the authors focus on students and teaching rather than research. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10