‘Excellence’ and Exclusion: The Individual Costs of Institutional Competitiveness

Minerva

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 201-218

  Watermeyer, Richard ^a   Olssen, Mark ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic exclusion; Audit cultures; Higher education policy; Neoliberalism; Performativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965064284     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: 15731871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11024-016-9298-5     Document Type: Article

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