'Business-facing motors for economic development': An appraisal analysis of visions and values in the marketised UK university

Critical Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-80

  Morrish, Liz ^a   Sauntson, Helen ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

appraisal analysis; commodification; financialisation; marketisation; neoliberalism; university mission statements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873124900     PISSN: 17405904     EISSN: 17405912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2012.736698     Document Type: Article

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