Shaping for Mediocrity: Universities and the Cancellation of Critical Thinking

by Gibson Burrell, David Harvie, Ronald Hartz

An insider account of the struggle for the soul of the university.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915672325
• ISBN13: 9781915672322
• Release Date: January 2079
• Publisher: Repeater
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.