The system crisis 2020: The end of neoliberal higher education in the UK?

dc.contributor.authorRudd, Tim
dc.contributor.authorO'Brien, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-20T11:31:58Z
dc.date.available2020-03-20T11:31:58Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we draw on previous conceptual work and theories pertaining to historical waves of reform, in order to reflect upon and locate the recent and current changes in the UK Higher Education (HE) landscape. Moreover, we consider the potentially catastrophic outcomes and consequences facing some HE institutions, and the sector as a whole, arising from the short-sighted and dogged pursuit of neoliberal policies – policies still being followed, we posit, at the precise moment when the current predominant neoliberal wave of reform nears its end. Thus, we present the case that as neoliberalism is confronted with a terminal crisis of legitimacy ‘from within’ (a system crisis), so too are universities. We therefore ask: What next for the HE sector and Universities? Will HE institutions ‘carry on regardless’ pursuing exploitative, ecocidal, meaningless fiscal growth policies that inexorably risk their legitimacy; their very existence? Or will universities turn away from their generative role in this crisis and authentically begin to reclaim, imagine and practise another educational mission?en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationRudd, T. and O'Brien, S. (2019) ‘The system crisis 2020: The end of neoliberal higher education in the UK?’, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 17(3), pp. 24-49. Available at: http://www.jceps.com/archives/7039 (Accessed: 20 March 2020)en
dc.identifier.eissn1740-2743
dc.identifier.endpage49en
dc.identifier.issn2051-0969
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal for Critical Education Policy Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage24en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9780
dc.identifier.volume17en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInstitute for Education Policy Studiesen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jceps.com/archives/7039
dc.rights© 2019, Institute for Education Policy Studies.en
dc.subjectNeoliberal educationen
dc.subjectRefractionen
dc.subjectWaves of reformen
dc.subjectHigher educationen
dc.subjectEconomic crisisen
dc.titleThe system crisis 2020: The end of neoliberal higher education in the UK?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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