Complicity and modularisation: How universities were made safe for the market

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 72-82

  Brecher, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 41549152575     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00615.x     Document Type: Review

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1. OED
2. Economist, 3 December 1966, 1005/1
3. Quoted in T. Hsi-en Chen, Chinese Education Since 1949: Academic and Revolutionary Models (Pergamon Press: New York, 1981)
4. am indebted for this quotation to Jo Halliday, 'Maoist Britain? The Ideological Function of Vocationalising the Higher Education Curriculum', Curriculum Studies, 1:3 (1993), 365-82, p. 375
5. Raf Salkie, 'Swan Songs in Each Tongue', a review of David Crystal, Language Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), Times Higher 1 September 2000, 23
6. 'Under-40s Bemoan Spoon-fed Students', Times Higher, 17 September 2004, 1
7. In one university from which I have anecdotal evidence, student evaluations form part of academics' annual appraisal, with all that that implies. I doubt it is unique in this
8. See his Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, February 1st 1867 (London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1867)
9. An early and perspicuous analysis of what might be termed the strange death of liberal education was John Passmore's 'Hearing Voices', Times Literary Supplement, 26 May - 1 June 1989, 567-8. An excellent analysis of the neo-liberals' opening salvoes in their determination to de-intellectualise higher education is Halliday, 'Maoist Britain?'
10. Michael Sandel, commenting on John Rawls's view of the self, in his Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 19
11. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. Stephan Collini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 59
12. Mary Warnock, Universities: Knowing our Minds (London: Chatto and Windus, 1989), 25
13. For an extended critique of the origins and pervasiveness of the 'wanting thing' of classical liberalism on which the neo-liberals rely in their construction of a 'society' of choosers, see my Getting What You Want? A Critique of Liberal Morality (London: Routledge, 1998), esp. chs 3 and 5
14. Norman Geras, Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty (London: Verso, 1995), 106
15. Guardian, 5 October 1991, 38