Modern Work and the Marketisation of Higher Education

Author:   Gerbrand Tholen (City, University of London)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
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9781447355274


Pages:   174
Publication Date:   08 September 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Modern Work and the Marketisation of Higher Education


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Over recent decades, national Higher Education sectors across the world have experienced a gradual process of marketisation. This book offers a new interpretation on why and how marketisation has taken place within England. It explores distinct assumptions on the nature of graduate work and how the graduate labour market drives the argumentation for more market and choice. Demonstrating the flaws in these assumptions - which are based on an idealised relationship between Higher Education and high-skilled work - this book fills an important need by questioning the current rationale for further marketisation.

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Author:   Gerbrand Tholen (City, University of London)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447355274


ISBN 10:   144735527
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   08 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Dimensions of Marketisation 3. Policymaking in Higher Education: Understanding the Economy 4. Policymaking in Higher Education: Understanding Work and the Labour Market 5. Policymaking in Higher Education: Human Capital 6. Graduate Work in Modern Capitalism 7. The Graduate Labour Market 8. Earnings 9. The Misinterpretation of Graduate Work 10. Conclusion

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This is a hugely valuable addition to the growing critical literature on the impact of marketisation on the graduate labour market. Tholen offers a comprehensive skewering of policy makers' reliance on human capital theory and employability discourses in the name of 'meritocracy' and 'social mobility'. Colin McCaig, Sheffield Hallam University


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Gerbrand Tholen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at City, University of London.

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