Neoliberal reforms in higher education: trends, manifestations and implications.
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Neoliberal reforms in higher education: trends, manifestations and implications.
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Description
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Book chapter. There has been an institutionalisation of entrepreneurial and managerial modes of organising higher educational institutions, stimulated and advanced by promoting business-like relations between the institutions and industry, commerce, and government.
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Creator
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Chipindi, Ferdinand Mwaka
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Date
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2023-11-30T14:39:08Z
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Date Available
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2023-11-30T14:39:08Z
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Date Issued
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2022-03-21
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Abstract
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This chapter analyses the spread of neoliberal reforms in higher educa tion, with a primary focus on an empirically specifc locale in Zambia, a Sub Saharan African economy. We argue that neoliberal discourses, introduced into
mainstream national policy on higher education in Zambia from the early 1990s
have profound effects on the character of higher education in general. The reforms
have occasioned signifcant levels of regulation or control over the actors within
higher education by using words that frame and constrain, behaviour leading to the
emergence of kinds of individuals who are then rendered governable (Bansel &
Davies, 2010). The reforms include cutting public expenditures for social services,
which include reducing government support to education and healthcare, as well as
a trend toward greater participation by private actors in public life, and in higher
education provision and fnance (Giroux HA, Harvard Educ Rev 72:425–463, 2002;
Harvey 2005; Olssen M, Peters MA, J Educ Policy 20:313–345, 2005; Zajda J, Rust
V, Globalisation and comparative education. Springer, Dordrecht, 2021). Ultimately,
there has been an institutionalisation of entrepreneurial and managerial modes of
organising higher educational institutions, stimulated and advanced by promoting
business-like relations between the institutions and industry, commerce, and
government.
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Chpindi, F. M., and Daka, H. (2022). Discourses of Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms, Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research 27, Springer, Melborne.
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2543-0572
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Book chapter