New managerialism, neoliberalism and ranking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12858309 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Lynch (0000-0001-8413-0969, Social Justice Ireland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-153 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1611-8014 • E-ISSN: 1863-5415 |
| Publisher | I nt er-R es ea rc h (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.3354/esep00137 |
| OpenAlex | W2335322570 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 57 |
This paper analyses the ranking of universities within the socio-political context of neoliberalism and the organisational context of new managerialism. It examines the forces that have facilitated the emergence of the ranking industry and the ideologies underpinning the so-called 'global' university rankings. What the paper shows is that rankings are a politically inspired mode of governance; they are designed to ensure that universities are regulated and controlled in accordance with market values. The seemingly objective character of rankings, in particular the use of numbers, creates an impression that what is of value in education can be simply counted, hierarchically ordered and uncontrovertibly judged. The simplicity and accessibility of rankings deflects attention from their political and moral purposes. Rankings are reconstituting the academy, for both academics and students; they are a new mode of external governance through which market values are reframing the social relations of education. They have altered the cognitive and moral frames through which university education is being appraised. The paper calls for a debate on the public interest objectives of universities in the context of growing market regulation
Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Economics · Management · Managerialism · Neoliberalism (international relations · New public management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public sector · Social science · Sociology · Ethics in Business and Education · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Public Administration
Attempting to Imagine the Unimaginable
The datafication of discipline
Conceptions of the value of higher education in a measured market
Rankings and entrepreneurial higher education
The perspective of new managerialism on changes in Hong Kong's self-financing post-secondary education institutions
The care ceiling in higher education
Academic Capitalism and Precarity in the Neoliberal University
Between decolonization and recolonization
The institutionalization of rankings in higher education
The politics of university rankings in China
Sustainability rankings in higher education
Foregrounding loneliness of PhDing of a migrant woman academic of colour
Constructing sustainable tourism development
Caring teaching as a troublesome practice
On impact factors and university rankings
Nailing down ‘academic’ freedom and tenure in Greek research institutions
Global university rankings uncovered
Tenure and academic deadwood
The impact of global university rankings on universities in Thailand
The bureaucratisation of the university
The Impact of the Psychological Contract on Academics
Writing differently
If you put pressure on yourself to produce then that's your responsibility’
Women academics experiences of maternity leave in the neoliberal university
Circling the divide
Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy
The persistence of neoliberal logics in faculty evaluations amidst Covid‐19
Reckoning up
Disrupting ‘bro code’
Aligning the market and affective self
Student Engagement
The affective imaginary
Challenges and Drawbacks in the Marketisation of Higher Education Within Neoliberalism
State-Funded Activism
Egg freezing as an employment benefit? Gender, career, and reproductive health in neoliberal academia
Academic freedom and the commercialisation of universities
The maladies of enlightenment science
Which came first
The ethics of human impacts and the future of the earth’s ecosystems
Education without limits’
Neither saints nor sinners” – The lived experiences of critical tourism scholars
Social indexology, neoliberalism and racialised metrics
The motivation and professional self of teachers teaching languages other than English in a Chinese university
The Ramblings of an Angry Pig
Quackery' in the Academy? Professional Knowledge, Autonomy and the Debate over Complementary Medicine Degrees
The Politics of Thailand's Participation in Pisa
Learning to earn? The role of performance grades in higher education
New Managerialism in Education
The Challenge of Establishing World Class Universities
The Taming of Chance
Performing and Reforming Leaders
Neoliberalism on Trial
Gats and the Education Service Industry
Nepotism and sexism in peer-review
To Rank or To Be Ranked
Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education
Expanding and Elaborating the Concept of Academic Capitalism
The `Neo-Bureaucratic' State
Globalizing What
Confronting the Privatization and Commercialization of Academic Research
Assessment policy and practice in higher education
Hidden dangers of a citation culture
Carelessness
Sex Discrimination in UK Academia
Globalisation and Its Educational Discontents
Academic freedom and social responsibility
Transforming Higher Education in Whose Image? Exploring the Concept of the ‘World-Class’ University in Europe and Asia
The New Spirit of Capitalism
Soft power, university rankings and knowledge production
Education, meritocracy and the global war for talent
Creative destruction’
Globalization and educational change
University ranking as social exclusion
Lessons for higher education
Fitting in’ or ‘standing out’
Patterns of Social Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in France and Germany
Stressing Academe
Performativity, Commodification and Commitment
Is There A Universal Right To Higher Education
Equality and Resistance in Higher Education
Irish universities
Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education
The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity
Global University Rankings
The Discipline of Rankings
Sacking the New Jerusalem? - The New Right, Social Democracy and Professional Identities
American Schooling and Educational Inequality
Rankings and Reactivity
Cultural Studies in the Corporate University
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |