Alternative Models for Higher Education
An ongoing discussion of alternative models of Higher Education, as Marton Racz reports, is generating a series of proposals as to how universities might work along more cooperative lines. Back in July, during a workshop at Leicester’s 9th International Critical Management Studies Conference, we discussed alternative models of Higher Education within the context of business […]
Should Social Scientific Debate occur outside Academic Journals?
Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption at the School, Stephen Dunne, attempts to renew a recent academic argument through a more accessible medium Social scientists engage in debates which matter to people other than themselves. Very often, however, those potentially publicly meaningful debates preside within academic journals which regularly assume a lot of terminological familiarity and disposable […]
Weber, Tolstoj and the Usefulness of Universities
Doris Ruth Eikhof, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, shares some earlier* thoughts on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) In the past two years UK universities have frantically prepared their submissions to the sector-wide assessment of their research prowess and output, the Research Excellence Framework, or REF. They have evaluated research outputs, written […]
Censoring Academics works well for Publishers
Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley, recently published (about publishing) In 2012, the four of us published a piece examining the not very well concealed relationship between the profit margins enjoyed by large commercial publishers and the […]
Academic Freedoms and the University Ltd.
Voltaire once wrote “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”. Professor of Organisation and Culture Martin Parker recently found out precisely what he meant. I had fundamental differences of opinion with the managers of the place I used to work. After having left “University Ltd.”, I decided to outline […]
What can Critics of Management and Critics of Economics learn from each other?
Neil Lancastle, one of the School’s current PhD students, brings his experience of curricular reform in economics to bear upon the promises (and problems) of being “critical” in a School of Management. Early in my PhD studies I was fortunate enough to read the sort of economic work which can now rightly claim to have […]
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