by CDBU Admin | Feb 20, 2020 | Book review, Uncategorized, University governance
Professor David Midgley continues his look at The Governance of British Higher Education by Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath The impact of the developments described in section I has been far from uniform. In addition to the differences in governance structure...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 18, 2020 | Book review, Uncategorized, University governance
In the first of three blogposts, Professor David Midgley offers some reflections on The Governance of British Higher Education by Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath, and what it tells us about the recent history of the university The question of how the state of...
by CDBU Admin | Jan 20, 2020 | Academic freedom, Book review, Uncategorized
Professor David Midgley takes a look at a timely new publication that puts the current debates on academic freedom into a historical context In September 2017 it was widely reported that the Attorney General of the USA, Jeff Sessions, had told an audience of...
by CDBU Admin | Jun 26, 2019 | Book review, Further education, Part-time students, Uncategorized, Widening access
Patrick Ainley, formerly professor of training and education at the University of Greenwich, welcomes an essay collection aiming to rethink the purpose of tertiary level learning but thinks that it does not go far enough The Centre for Labour and Social Studies...
by CDBU Admin | Apr 30, 2019 | Admissions, Augar Review, Book review, Casual staff, Grade inflation, Higher Education and Research Act, Marketisation, Office for Students, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access
Professor David Midgley reviews English Universities in Crisis: Markets without Competition, by Jefferson Frank, Norman Gowar and Michael Naef The policy objectives against which this book measures the effectiveness of the current system for funding and regulating...
by CDBU Admin | Oct 25, 2018 | Book review, Guest blog, Uncategorized, Widening access
Patrick Ainley welcomes a book that rethinks the purpose of a university – and offers some radical suggestions of his own Everyone knows who universities are for. As another book in the Bristol University/ Policy Press shorts series concludes: ‘The English education...
