scholarly journals Everyday activism: challenging neoliberalism for radical library workers in English higher education

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Katherine Quinn ◽  
Jo Bates
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Local Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Potential Site ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University

The purpose of this chapter is twofold: to examine the political position of academic librarianship in the context of recent changes in English Higher Education and to explore existing and emergent moments of radical educational possibility. Firstly, we argue for critical attention being paid to the university library – a site often perceived as self-evident, neutral, predictable – and highlight ways in which the work of the library has been affected by processes of neoliberalisation. Secondly, we investigate Radical Librarians Collective (RLC), an open, horizontalist organisation of library workers and supporters, as a potential site through which to counter these developments and foster radical alternatives. RLC’s successes are primarily within its aims to provide solidarity, space for discussion, and mutual aid nationally between like-minded library workers, and its support for everyday workplace practices of resistance. We conclude with suggestions for the collective’s development which focus on structure and local action.

IR, the Critic, and the World: From Reifying the Discipline to Decolonising the University

2020 ◽  
pp. 030582982093706
Author(s):  
Isaac Kamola
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Why does IR scholarship seem so resistant to travel into other disciplinary spaces? To answer this question, I look at the tendency for scholars within our discipline to talk to the discipline, about the discipline, and for the discipline. We obsess over ‘IR’ and, in doing so, reify IR as a thing. I turn towards Edward Said’s arguments about the worldliness of texts, and how reification shapes how ideas travel. I then provide two illustrations of how scholars have reified IR as a thing: Robert Cox’s approach to critical theory and Amitav Acharya’s call for a ‘Global IR’. In both cases, contrary to expectation, the authors reify IR as a thing, portraying the discipline as distinct from the world. IR is treated as something with agency, ignoring how disciplinary knowledge is produced within worldly institutions. I conclude by looking at three strategies for studying worldly relations in ways that refuse to reify the discipline: showing disloyalty to the discipline, engaging the political economy of higher education, and seeking to decolonise the university. Rather than reifying IR, these strategies help us to engage our scholarly work in a way that prioritises worldly critical engagements within our disciplinary community, and the world.

scholarly journals Economic and Higher Education Partnership of Hungary and Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Magdolna Mandel ◽  
Anargul Belgibayeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Communications ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

The aim of our research was to describe, compare, and analyze the development of business and educational co-operation between Kazakhstan and Hungary over the past 19 years. The research was prompted by the university-level co-operation between the two countries that star ted in 2018, which was made possible by the strategic partnership that is the topic of the present article. We started from the hypothesis that both business and educational co-operation has developed linearly and significantly during the last 19 years. Our research methodology was based on gathering and analyzing secondary macroeconomic, trade, and educational co-operation data in the period between 2011 and 2020. The data were obtained from publications, national offices (statistical, commerce, and education), and international bodies (like TempusPublic Foundation, Eurostat, International Monetary Fund [IMF], and the World Bank). In this paper, we intend to link the main political, social, and macroeconomic endowments with business and educational developments of partnership in the two countries, trying to map out prospects for co-operation. One conclusion is that, although in the political communications of the two countries we were able to identify significant governmental efforts on both sides to support and enforce economic and educational co-operation, the data indicate a decrease in the size of business investments. At the same time, however, the educational co-operation between the two parties continues to develop further.

scholarly journals The equality of opportunities in the access of higher education

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Ma. Jesus Freire
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Financing ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Real Cost ◽  
Equality Of Opportunities ◽  
The University ◽  
Significant Effort

This work analyzes equality of access to the university in Galicia (Spain) as it was influenced by the political decision to finance higher education at between 80% and 85% of its real cost. The composition of the student body with respect to the level of their parents' education is examined. The analysis confirms that in spite of the significant effort at public financing, the objective of equal access will not be reached.

Administration and Management in Institutions of Higher Education in the Kingdom SHS (Based on the Example of Universities in Belgrade and Zagreb)

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Dušan Bajagić
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Autonomous System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
The University

The method of quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary documents (laws and by-laws) made it possible to study the administration and nature of the management of institutions of higher education under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. This is the University of Belgrade (BU), as well as the University (ZU) and the high schools in Zagreb. The findings of the survey confirmed that, in the context of the pluralism of legal systems that remained in the Kingdom SHS (KSHS), these two centers of higher education, each of which had special autonomous rights, were different administrative systems. BU as a whole was formed and developed in the period before WWI. At the same time, in the KSHS more attention was paid to the creation and development of individual faculties. So, BU took the form of an autonomous, integrated and self-sufficient administrative system, which independently chose its own authorities and carried out all the tasks before it. ZU consisting of three faculties had been developing for half a century in Austria-Hungary. In accordance with the territorial and political autonomy of the region, Croatia and Slavonia ZU embodied the model of territorial-functional administrative system. It was governed by the political power – the land government / regional administration, as well as the ban / regional governor. Their interrelated and interdependent authorities covered most of the cases and tasks that accompanied the work of the memory and higher schools. Within the framework of the KSHS, in just over six years, ZU, which grew out as a result of the opening of three new faculties and three higher schools, became an autonomous system of management.

scholarly journals Editorial

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Welch ◽  
Susan Wright
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Institutional Politics ◽  
International Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Programme Design ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University

Welcome to Volume 4 of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. LATISS has been gradually widening its focus from its point of origin in the U.K. and this issue is truly international with material from Latin America, U.S.A, Sweden and England. LATISS’s approach – to study and reflect on the detail of teaching and learning practices in contexts of institutional change and national and international policies – is also well exemplified by the articles in this issue. For example, three of the articles explore issues of ‘race’ and ethnicity in connection with programme design, institutional politics and classroom relations respectively and in very different historical and policy contexts. Two articles also connect to topics on which LATISS has recently published special issues: on gender in higher education and on using the university as a site to critically explore the meaning and operation of neoliberalism.

Reforma szkolnictwa wyższego i nauki – główne zmiany w systemie dotyczące uczelni publicznych

1970 ◽  
Vol 20 (274) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Piotr Ziółkowski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political System ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University

The aim of the presented analysis was to identify areas which are most affected by the change resulting from the reform of science and higher education in Poland. The source of this type of research is the Law on Higher Education and Science of July 20, 2018 and legal acts which, as a result of its adoption, are being repealed. Although the reform covers more entities than public universities, the new law on higher education introduces in their case the possibility of changing the system as a result of endogenous transformations. In addition to changes in the political system of the university, another area of change is the model of doctoral education, broader even the entire model of an academic career. The evaluation of the scientific activity and the financing of the university will have a different character.

2016 top trends and issues in Jamaican academic libraries

2017 ◽  
Vol 118 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 17-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasekea Harris
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Mobile Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
University Level ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The University

Purpose Biennially, the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association, publishes a report on the top trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education. Harris (2016) used the trends and issues reported by the ACRL to inform a document and thematic analysis of publications written on Jamaican academic librarianship 2010-2016, to investigate the trends and issues in Jamaican academic librarianship. Harris’ (2016) paper however noted that a survey of the chief librarian in each library, regarding their perceptions of the trends and issues would be a useful follow-up to her study, and cited this as a limitation/implication of her paper. The purpose of this paper is to address the above limitation and is therefore the follow-up to Harris’ (2016) paper. Design/methodology/approach The chief librarians in five of the six local university libraries were surveyed to provide insights into the trends and issues in Jamaican academic libraries at the university level. Findings Acquisitions, budget, staffing, communicating value, digital preservation and curation, mobile environment, collaboration, scholarly communication, information technology, space, higher education, user behaviour and expectations and information literacy are the top trends and issues in Jamaican academic libraries at the university level. Research limitations/implications This survey seeks to complement rather than contest Harris’ (2016) research. Perhaps a useful follow-up to both papers would be biennial updates. Additionally, a survey of the trends and issues in all types of academic libraries throughout the English-speaking Caribbean would be a useful follow-up. Originality/value This paper is of value, as it is the first survey of trends and issues in Jamaican academic librarianship. It enriches the existing document and thematic analytical research on trends and issues in Jamaican academic libraries by adding an empirical component. It also increases the number of publications, on trends and issues in Jamaican academic librarianship, from one to two, and allows voices from the English-speaking Caribbean (Jamaica) to be incorporated into the literature dedicated to trends and issues in academic libraries.

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