Wednesday, April 11, 2018

On bullied universities speaking truth to power

Britain’s bullied universities should be speaking truth to power" raises some interesting points about New Zealand’s Education Act   .... "that ..gives universities a statutory duty to be “the critic and conscience of society”"  Whilst he offers support for such an institutional arrangement he has little to say about other forms of institutional innovation that might be applied to UK HE.

Wolff offers a critique of academic practice, implying that more than institutional innovation is needed. Consideration of his own reflexive praxis is, however, missing from the article.  In critiques of this type it would be good to see a shift from the abstract to the embodied and personal.

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