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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education pp 181–214Cite as

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The Rise of the Manageriat

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One of the big stories told about the modern higher education is that universities have become transnational business corporations operating in a competitive ‘global knowledge economy’ (Readings 1996: 13; Kelsey 1998; Strathern 2000; Fitzsimons 2004). This story about the modern university, which is almost always confirmed by any number of academics and by academic studies, insists that the modern university has been variously ‘marketised’ or ‘rationalised’ by a new order of managers. One set of commentators think the result is a wonderful, new, efficient, high-quality customer-focused institution of higher learning. Another set of commentators insist that the effect of marketising universities has been to subvert and even degrade core academic values and that practices are now being subverted by a large new administrative class (Bok 2003). A small number of writers have gone so far as to argue that the ‘marketisation’ of higher education has actually fostered a new type of entity: the ‘McUniversity’ (Parker and Jary 1995; Neave 2005),

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Watts, R. (2017). The Rise of the Manageriat. In: Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53599-3_6

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