Imagining the University by Ronald Barnett
Simon Blackburn on higher education via a postmodern lens
Simon Blackburn on higher education via a postmodern lens
The idea of academic leadership has been largely reduced to management. But alternative HE visions are still being produced, says Ronald Barnett
Other value frameworks, such as those implicit in indigenous knowledges, must be better heard, says Ronald Barnett
The pandemic presents a perfect opportunity to think differently about higher education, says David Staley, as he lists potential models of the future
Effort to publish damned by review process Ronald Barnett offered some suggestions on how to conduct journal reviews with integrity in his article “Where are the ethics in academic publishing?” (...
Ronald Barnett offers suggestions on how to conduct journal reviews with integrity
When the government introduced new policies for higher education fees, it ignored warnings that repayment rates would be much lower than it had claimed. Now that it has acknowledged those lower...
As society is transformed, focusing on graduate employment will no longer be sufficient, says Graeme Atherton
Will UK universities be seen internationally as less concerned with the world? Ronald Barnett considers the EU referendum result
Having been away of late, I am only now able to respond to Simon Blackburn’s review of my book Imagining the University (“Creative steps to po-po-mo heaven”, 31 January).First, the role of any...
Notwithstanding my huge respect for Ronald Barnett, I would like to take issue with his characterisation of what he calls "the public-good theorists" ("Head in the clouds, feet on the ground", 3...
Three cheers for Ronald Barnett's conception of the utopian university! It won't get very far, though, in today's down-to-earth, cynical, quantified, realistic, critically minded, academic arena -...
A team from the Institute of Education, London, will examine more than 1,500 replies to a questionnaire from the Dearing inquiry into higher education. Led by Ronald Barnett, dean of professional...