Author : Mike Finn
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1787437426
This timely book provides an invaluable analysis of the impact the Brexit decision has an will offer a reflection on the reflexive relationship British higher education had to the Brexit vote itself.
Author : Richard Watermeyer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178897591X
Identifying academic freedom as a major casualty of rapid and extensive reforms to the governance and practices of academic institutions worldwide, this timely Handbook considers the meaning of academic freedom, the threats it faces, the consequences of its loss, and its relation to rights of critical expression, public accountability and the democratic health of open societies.
Author : Mike Finn
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1787437523
This timely book provides an invaluable analysis of the impact the Brexit decision has an will offer a reflection on the reflexive relationship British higher education had to the Brexit vote itself.
Author : Adrian Curaj
Publisher : Springer
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319774077
This volume presents the major outcomes of the third edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC 3) which was held on 27-29 November 2017. It acknowledges the importance of a continued dialogue between researchers and decision-makers and benefits from the experience already acquired, this way enabling the higher education community to bring its input into the 2018-2020 European Higher Education Area (EHEA) priorities. The Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC) has already established itself as a landmark in the European higher education environment. The two previous editions (17-19 October 2011, 24-26 November 2014), with approximately 200 European and international participants each, covering more than 50 countries each, were organized prior to the Ministerial Conferences, thus encouraging a consistent dialogue between researchers and policy makers. The main conclusions of the FOHE Conferences were presented at the EHEA Ministerial Conferences (2012 and 2015), in order to make the voice of researchers better heard by European policy and decision makers. This volume is dedicated to continuing the collection of evidence and research-based policymaking and further narrowing the gap between policy and research within the EHEA and broader global contexts. It aims to identify the research areas that require more attention prior to the anniversary 2020 EHEA Ministerial Conference, with an emphasis on the new issues on rise in the academic and educational community. This book gives a platform for discussion on key issues between researchers, various direct higher education actors, decision-makers, and the wider public. This book is published under an open access CC BY license.
Author : Mark Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1000448843
This comprehensive volume explores the political, social, economic and geographical implications of Brexit within the context of an already divided UK state. It demonstrates how support for Brexit not only sharpened differences within England and between the separate nations comprising the UK state, but also reflected how austerity politics, against which the referendum was conducted, impacted differently, with north and south, urban and rural becoming embroiled in the Leave vote. This book explores how, as the process of negotiating the secession of the UK from the EU was to demonstrate, the seemingly intractable problem of the Irish border and the need to maintain a ‘soft border’ provided a continuing obstacle to a smooth transition. The authors in this book also explore various other profound questions that have been raised by Brexit; questions of citizenship, of belonging, of the probable impacts of Brexit for key economic sectors, including agriculture, and its meaning for gender politics. The book also brings to the forefront how the UK was geographically imagined – a new lexicon of ‘left behind places’, ‘citizens of somewhere’ and ‘citizens of nowhere’ conjuring up new imaginations of the spaces and places making up the UK. This book draws out the wider implications of Brexit for a refashioned geography. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Space and Polity.
Author : David Willetts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0191080047
Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools - a striking theme of the book. This important book first investigates the university as an institution and then tracks the individual on their journey to and through university. In A University Education, David Willetts presents a compelling case for the ongoing importance of the university, both as one of the great institutions of modern society and as a transformational experience for the individual. The book also makes illuminating comparisons with higher education in other countries, especially the US and Germany. Drawing on his experience as UK Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014, the author offers a powerful account of the value of higher education and the case for more expansion. He covers controversial issues in which he was involved from access for disadvantaged students to the introduction of £9,000 fees. The final section addresses some of the big questions for the future, such as the the relationship between universities and business, especially in promoting innovation.. He argues that the two great contemporary trends of globalisation and technological innovation will both change the university significantly. This is an authoritative account of English universities setting them for the first time in their new legal and regulatory framework.
Author : Leasa Weimer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9004422587
Universities can be viewed and studied as political institutions, especially considering that they sit at the crossroads of social, cultural, and economic pressures. The internal and external environment of higher education brings with it multiple and complex relationships as well as power struggles. Within these contested political spaces, there are phenomena to be studied. While the field of higher education draws from a multitude of disciplines, some scholars argue that only recently has scholarship focused on the political perspectives of higher education. To better understand the politics and policies of higher education, Universities as Political Institutions illuminates a variety of ways that researchers view and study universities as a political institution, from considering the national and international political pressures shaping higher education to the analysis of responses and political action from within the ivory tower. The 2017 annual CHER conference in Jyväskylä (Finland) brought together 213 scholars from 30 countries. This book includes a selection of papers and keynote presentations from this conference. The thematic approach of the book reflects the 2017 conference theme: "Universities as Political Institutions – Higher Education Institutions in the Middle of Academic, Economic, and Social Pressures". The theme focused on multiple and often complex relations and relationships, internal and external, to higher education institutions. In this context, "political" refers not only to definitions, uses, and users of power but more broadly to a variety of relationships among different actors and agencies responsible for making, executing, or resisting decisions concerning higher education institutions.
Author : Michael Dougan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 9781780684710
Brexit : the relationship between the UK Parliament and the UK Goverment / Michael Gordan -- Devolution / Jo Hunt -- The 'Brexit' threat to the Northern Irish border : clarifying the constitutional framework / Michael Dougan Brexit and UK courts : awaiting fresh instruction / Thomas Horsley -- Brexit and employment law / Catherine Barnard -- UK environmental law post-Brexit / Veerle Heyvaert and Alekandra Cavoski -- Extracting the UK from EU financial services governance : regulatary recasting or shadowing from a distance? / Niamh Moloney -- Intellectual property law and the Brexit : a retreat or a reaffirmation of jurisdiction? / Luke McDonagh and Marc Mimler -- May we stay? assessing the security of residence for EU citizens living in the UK / Stephanie Reynolds -- Cross- border criminal cooperation after Brexit / Vasamis Mitsilegas -- Membership of the World Trade Organization / Gregory Messenger -- UK trade policy / Marise Cremona -- UK foreign investment protection policy post-Brexit / Mavulda a Sattorova -- Brexit and international peace and security : a crisis for crisis management? / Christian Henderson -- Brexit and relations between the EU and the UK / Paul Craig
Author : Stefan Collini
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1786631407
A devastating analysis of what is happening to our academia In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalization forces institutions to consider a new economic horizon. At the same time governments have systematically imposed new procedures regulating funding, governance, and assessment. Universities are being forced to behave more like business enterprises in a commercial marketplace than centres of learning. In Speaking of Universities, historian and critic Stefan Collini analyses these changes and challenges the assumptions of policy-makers and commentators. He asks: does “marketization” threaten to destroy what we most value about education; does this new era of “accountability” distort what it purports to measure; and who does the modern university belong to? Responding to recent policies and their underlying ideology, the book is a call to “focus on what is actually happening and the clichés behind which it hides; an incitement to think again, think more clearly, and then to press for something better.”
Author : Richard Tuck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509542299
Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Union and turn what’s left of Britain into a neoliberal dystopia. Richard Tuck’s ongoing commentary on the Brexit crisis demolishes this narrative. He argues that by opposing Brexit and throwing its lot in with a liberal constitutional order tailor-made for the interests of global capitalists, the Left has made a major error. It has tied itself into a framework designed to frustrate its own radical policies. Brexit therefore actually represents a golden opportunity for socialists to implement the kind of economic agenda they have long since advocated. Sadly, however, many of them have lost faith in the kind of popular revolution that the majoritarian British constitution is peculiarly well-placed to deliver and have succumbed instead to defeatism and the cultural politics of virtue-signalling. Another approach is, however, still possible. Combining brilliant contemporary political insights with a profound grasp of the ironies of modern history, this book is essential for anyone who wants a clear-sighted assessment of the momentous underlying issues brought to the surface by Brexit.
