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标题：The System Crisis 2020: The End of Neoliberal Higher Education in the UK?
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作者：Tim Rudd ; Stephen O’Brien
期刊名称：Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
印刷版ISSN：1740-2743
电子版ISSN：1740-2743
出版年度：2019
卷号：17
期号：3
页码：1-26
出版社：Institute for Education Policy Studies
摘要：In this paper, we draw on previous conceptual work and theories pertaining to historical waves of reform, in order to reflect upon and locate the recent and current changes in the UK Higher Education (HE) landscape. Moreover, we consider the potentially catastrophic outcomes and consequences facing some HE institutions, and the sector as a whole, arising from the short-sighted and dogged pursuit of neoliberal policies – policies still being followed, we posit, at the precise moment when the current predominant neoliberal wave of reform nears its end. Thus, we present the case that as neoliberalism is confronted with a terminal crisis of legitimacy ‘from within’ (a system crisis), so too are universities. We therefore ask: What next for the HE sector and Universities? Will HE institutions ‘carry on regardless’ pursuing exploitative, ecocidal, meaningless fiscal growth policies that inexorably risk their legitimacy; their very existence? Or will universities turn away from their generative role in this crisis and authentically begin to reclaim, imagine and practise another educational mission.
关键词：neoliberal education; refraction; waves of reform; higher education; economic crisis