Academic ideals are being crushed to suit private-sector style management

By Anonymous academic. If universities continue to heed the call of corporatisation, the role of the academic – as we know it – will become extinct. As an early-career lecturer in a post-1992 university, I often feel like a rare bird in an ornate cage struggling to maintain its dignity in a discount superstore filled with pets. This bird knows it could have been a proud representative of a noble lineage and chirrups dolefully as it ruffles its plumes, but the song is drowned out by the bustling sale of cheap, plastic imitation bird-objects around it. More...