Excellence and exclusion : the individual costs of institutional competitivness / Richard Watermeyer ; Mark Olssen

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Author	WATERMEYER, Richard (OLSSEN, Mark)
Title	Excellence and exclusion : the individual costs of institutional competitivness / Richard Watermeyer ; Mark Olssen
Publication year	2016
Source/Footnote	In: Minerva. - 54 (2016) 2, S. 201 - 218
Inventory number	44507
Keywords	Ausland : Großbritannien : Forschung, Hochschullehrer ; Forschungsförderung
Abstract	A performance-based funding system like the United Kingdoms Research Excellence Framework (REF) symbolizes the re-rationalization of higher education according to neoliberal ideology and New Public Management technologies. The REF is also significant for disclosing the kinds of behaviour that characterize universities response to government demands for research auditability. In this paper, we consider the casualties of what Henry Giroux (2014) calls neoliberalisms war on higher education or more precisely the deleterious consequences of non-participation in the REF. We also discuss the ways with which higher educations competition fetish, embodied within the REF, affects the instrumentalization of academic research and the diminution of academic freedom, autonomy and criticality. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)