Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities

by Gibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie

In 2021, as part of a programme 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 organisation. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 180341796X
• ISBN13: 9781803417967
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"