Is State Control in Higher Education Governance Always Bad?: New Public Management and the History of Indonesian Higher Education Reform Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-313
Author(s):  
Nurdiana Gaus
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
State Control ◽  
Reform Policy ◽  
Education Governance ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of

Ku poprawie jakości systemu, czyli logika racjonalizacji i ekonomizacji w kształtowaniu polityki szkolnictwa wyższego w Polsce

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Dziedziczak‑Foltyn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
New Public

The dynamic development of higher education in Poland of the last quarter of a  century belongs to the most spectacular achievements of the system transformation. That development, however, is virtually limited to a quantitative progress which could be illustrated by the record high enrolment ratios (and the number of higher education institutions), accompanied by a striking scarcity of financial resources earmarked for this sector – several times lower than in the leading European countries. A qualitative progress that Poland could be proud of, however, did not follow. The economic and political change has led to a sudden marketization of higher education, stimulating the processes of competitiveness, unfortunately without policy makers’ paying adequate attention. At the same time, together with the increasing European integration, Poland developed modernization strategies in this sector. They focused on economic rationalization, which was dictated by European policies and global challenges.  Therefore, the changes in higher education took place under the banners of neoliberal reforms, and included such slogans as new public management and managerialism. One law after another has increasingly stressed that kind of logic in reforming higher education institutions. It seems that in the situation of permanent underfunding of the whole sector, that approach was meant to be a lifeline for Polish schools, practically absent from the global world of science and higher education. The goal of the paper is to present how the concept of economic improvement of higher education in Poland evolved as a whole, mainly in the higher education policy and legislative dimension, including the most significant consequences of the said improvement for the quality of the entire system. Keywords: higher education, reform of higher education, law on higher education, higher education policy, economization, rationalization.

The New Public Management of Higher Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Brunskell-Evans
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pedagogy Of Discomfort ◽  
The Government

This chapter explores the possibilities of Michel Foucault’s philosophical-political writings for practicing a “pedagogy of discomfort” in Higher Education (HE). Foucault’s method of genealogy and his concept of governmentality are used to reflect upon the dynamics of power underlying the government of HE in the United Kingdom, in particular the new modes of teaching and learning. The chapter has three inextricably entwined aims: it presents a genealogical history of the changing face of HE under the auspices of New Public Management (NPM) as a form of neo-liberal governmental disciplinary control; it describes the new modes of teaching and learning as examples of that control; and it argues that inherent in genealogical modes of analysis are possibilities and opportunities for educationists concerned with politically framed progressive action to develop pedagogical practices that disrupt or challenge the government of teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Consumer Metaphor versus the Citizen Metaphor: Frame Merging and Higher Education Reform in Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Nordensvärd ◽  
Markus Ketola
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Neoliberal Reform ◽  
Student Fees

Neoliberal metaphors of students often describe students as consumers, managers and even as commodities, but this analysis often disregards the discursive complexity of education. We argue that frame merging is essential to understand the hybrid modalities of neoliberal images of students in the Swedish context, where the image of the student is suspended between a social democratic welfare service model, academic capitalism, new public management and welfare nationalism. We demonstrate this through the case study of introducing student fees for non-EU students in Swedish higher education, and how the merging of universal tax financing with a more individualised fee paying solution creates variegated and complex metaphors of students and higher education. These metaphors are infused with social democratic social citizenship, neoliberal reform of welfare services, academic capitalism and nationalist welfare chauvinism. This implies that, in practice, it is nigh on impossible to disentangle the neoliberal consumer metaphor from that of social citizenship; instead they merge to generate multiple contextually relevant metaphors to fit the local debates in higher education.

scholarly journals The Neoliberal University in Ireland: Institutional Bullying by Another Name?

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Margaret Hodgins ◽  
Patricia Mannix McNamara
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health And Well Being

New managerialism and the pervasive neoliberalisation of universities is by now a well-established phenomenon. Commentaries explore the political and economic drivers and effects of neoliberal ideology, and critique the impact on higher education and academic work. The impact on the health and well-being of academic staff has had less attention, and it is to that we turn in this paper. Much academic interest in neoliberalism stems from the UK, Australia and the United States. We draw particularly on studies of public Irish universities, where neoliberalism, now well entrenched, but something of a late-comer to the new public management party, is making its presence felt. This conceptual paper explores the concept of neoliberalism in higher education, arguing that the policies and practices of new public management as exercised in universities are a form of bullying; what we term institutional bullying. The authors are researchers of workplace culture, workplace bullying and incivility. Irish universities are increasingly challenged in delivering the International Labour Organisation (ILO) principles of decent work, i.e., dignity, equity, fair income and safe working conditions. They have become exposed in terms of gender imbalance in senior positions, precariat workforce, excessive workload and diminishing levels of control. Irish universities are suffering in terms of both the health and well-being of staff and organisational vibrancy. The authors conclude by cautioning against potential neoliberal intensification as universities grapple with the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper reviews neoliberalism in higher education and concludes with insight as to how the current pandemic could act as a necessary catalyst to stem the tide and ‘call out’ bullying at the institutional level.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document