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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Shaping for mediocrity
    sub title: the cancellation of critical thinking at our universities
  name:
    name part: Burrell, Gibson
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In 2021, as part of a program called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what was simultaneously an attack on academic freedom and trade union organization. The authors of Shaping for Mediocrity not only had front-row seats in the campaign against these mass redundancies, they were in the ring, both as targeted employees and as trade union officers and negotiators. Shaping for Mediocrity tells the inside story of these attacks and the campaign against them. It situates this story within a longer history of struggle to make the university a place where critical thinking is possible, showing how events in Leicester are both reflective of higher education in the United Kingdom following four decades of neoliberal 'reform' and a particularly egregious instance of the increasingly authoritarian management of public institutions such as universities.
  note: Gibson Burrell [and 4 others].
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: University of Leicester
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Universities and colleges
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Administration
  subject:
    topic: Universities and colleges
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Critical thinking
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: LB2395.35 .B87 2024
  classification: 370.15/2
  identifier: 9781803417974
  identifier: 9781803417967
  identifier: 180341796X
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240611
    record change date: 20250714194605.5
    record identifier: in00005611414