How can university education contribute to urgently needed societal and global change
towards an equitable and compassionate world? Part of the answer lies in building shared …

A critical notion in contemporary neoliberal society is “employability”, ie, the set of skills,
competencies and abilities that make an individual able to compete successfully on national …

In this paper Mike Neary presents a set of principles on which to design the university of the
future, where the future is understood as post-capitalist (communist) society. These …

This Special Issue emerged as a reaction to changes in the organisation of academic work
that authors variously refer to as the managerial university (eg, Laiho et al. 2022; Lea 2011) …

The 21st-century university is a contested site of neoliberal transformation. Its role is moving
away from that of a hub of culture, knowledge and critique to that of a provider of skills and …

Strategic management is a built-in process for many universities around the world. As part of
an encroaching (or perhaps already encroached) facsimile of corporate managerialism …

Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead
the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the …

The core argument is that social science must re-examine its mission and praxis in order to
be a significant player in future higher education. This article reviews the results and …

The well-documented academic shift toward productivity-related and managerial priorities
has created new ethical stakes and exacerbated older ethical deficits in the university world …