Quality And Power In Higher EducationQuality and Power in Higher Education covers a wide range of issues including: the policy contexts, new managerialism, the costs of quality assurance, collegiality, peer review, gender and equity implications, occupational stress, commodification and consumer values in higher education, performance, league tables, benchmarking, increasing workloads and the long-term effects on the academy. |
Contents
Chapter 1 The Policy Context of Quality in Higher Education | 1 |
Chapter 2 How Quality is Assessed | 15 |
Chapter 3 Managing Quality | 47 |
Chapter 4 The Psychic Economy of Quality | 67 |
Chapter 5 Changing Employment Regimes | 91 |
Chapter 6 The Micropolitics of Quality | 105 |
Chapter 7 Reconstructing Students as Consumers | 129 |
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