by Becca Bashford | Mar 23, 2022 | Book review, Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Further education, Government, Opinion, UCU, Uncategorized
Review by Patrick Ainley, former professor of training and education at the University of Greenwich and regular contributor to the Post-16 Educator. The argument in this book is that mass higher education, for all its multiple and irreversible achievements, is...
by Becca Bashford | Feb 16, 2022 | Book review, CDBU Updates, Guest blog, Opinion, Uncategorized
Review by Professor Julian Preece Ronald J. Daniels, the lead author of this original and much-needed book, has been President of Johns Hopkins since 2007. He was previously head of the Law School at Toronto, then Provost at Pennsylvania. Universities have not only...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 23, 2020 | Book review, Uncategorized, University governance
Professor David Midgley concludes his discussion of The Governance of British Higher Education by Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath Like other analysts of the current situation, Shattock and Horvath bring out very clearly the deleterious effects of...
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...
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...
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...
