As UK academics are once more on strike, here is an extremely informative read by
Dr. Lee Jones on the impact of the marketization of higher education on students and staff
This bit feels even more relevant for today’s #UCU #strike #ucuRISING
For many years, academics accepted relatively low pay (relative to their skill level) and long hours in exchange for relative #autonomy at work and a dignified retirement. That #socialContract has been torn up under a decade of #marketisation. The supply of “good will” (i.e. #underpaid and #unpaidLabour) that has kept #universities running for a long time is now close to zero. Even if the employers win in this dispute, it will be a #Phyrric victory, or a Carthaginian one — creating a desert and calling it peace. Unless vice-chancellors change course, #workplace relations will be poisoned for a generation and universities will become increasingly #dysfunctional.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Marketisation in British Higher Education by Lee Jones
