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Universities Under Fire = Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Universities Under Fire/ by Steven Jones.
Reminder of title:	Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education /
Author:	Jones, Steven.
Description:	XXIX, 264 p. 1 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Education, Higher. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96107-7
ISBN:	9783030961077

Universities Under Fire = Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education /
Jones, Steven.

Universities Under FireHostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education /[electronic resource] :by Steven Jones. - 1st ed. 2022. - XXIX, 264 p. 1 illus.online resource. - Palgrave Critical University Studies,2662-7337. - Palgrave Critical University Studies,.

Higher education: a sector unloved -- How university staff are talked about -- How university funding is talked about -- How university students are talked about -- How free speech is talked about -- New stories for an old sector?.

This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector internalised the language and logic of government policy, and individual institutions then set about normalising competition and gaming short-term advantage at the expense of collectively serving a common good. A flawed marketisation project was attended and sustained by hostile discourses, with purportedly woke universities becoming a soft target for right-leaning politicians and media commentators, and campuses reluctant battlefields for manufactured culture wars. Within this context, integrity deficits soon arose: universities bragged about diversity and social responsibility without commensurate action; global ambitions went unmatched by local accountability; senior management grew more distant and self-rewarding as contractual precarity increased for frontline staff. Jones does not call for a return to any golden age of academic self-rule. Rather, he warns that without self-assured new stories, firmly underpinned by more transparent and moral forms of governance, universities risk further compromising their standing as trusted public institutions at the very moment they are needed most.

ISBN: 9783030961077

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-96107-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

554829
Education, Higher.

LC Class. No.: LB2300-2799.3

Dewey Class. No.: 378

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