"Excellence" and Exclusion: The Individual Costs of Institutional Competitiveness

Autor/inn/en	Watermeyer, Richard; Olssen, Mark
Titel	"Excellence" and Exclusion: The Individual Costs of Institutional Competitiveness
Quelle	In: Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 54 (2016) 2, S.201-218 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-4695
DOI	10.1007/s11024-016-9298-5
Schlagwörter	Neoliberalism; Funding Formulas; Higher Education; Institutional Characteristics; Competition; Educational Research; Research Problems; Academic Freedom; Institutional Autonomy; Audits (Verification); Accountability; Governance; Excellence in Education; Grade Point Average; Weighted Scores; Institutional Evaluation; Educational Researchers; Productivity; Educational Quality; Educational Practices; Quality Assurance; Eligibility; Academic Rank (Professional); Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Funding; Finanzierung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Wettkampf; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Forschungskritik; Akademische Freiheit; Institutionelle Autonomie; Verantwortung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Lernerfolg; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Produktivität; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungspraxis; Qualitätssicherung; Eignung; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	A performance-based funding system like the United Kingdom's "Research Excellence Framework" (REF) symbolizes the re-rationalization of higher education according to neoliberal ideology and New Public Management technologies. The REF is also significant for disclosing the kinds of behaviour that characterize universities' response to government demands for research auditability. In this paper, we consider the casualties of what Henry Giroux (2014) calls "neoliberalism's war on higher education" or more precisely the deleterious consequences of non-participation in the REF. We also discuss the ways with which higher education's competition fetish, embodied within the REF, affects the instrumentalization of academic research and the diminution of academic freedom, autonomy and criticality. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01