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Have university academics been disempowered? Do highly-paid managers exploit an army of badly-paid temporary teaching staff? Conventional wisdom, across the developed world, paints a picture of increasingly dysfunctional institutions. But is that fair? Or do we exaggerate the differences between today’s universities and an idealised past?
In a forthcoming Policy Institute report, supported by the Nuffield Foundation, Alison Wolf and Andrew Jenkins present the first full and in-depth analysis of what has actually happened to the UK higher education workforce since the millennium.
Managers and academics in a centralising system tracks and explains the far-reaching changes that have followed from university expansion this century. It confirms some common perceptions, but also uncovers less well recognised changes with major implications for our university system’s future.
Join us to hear the authors present their findings, and discuss them with an expert panel.
Panel
- Professor the Baroness Alison Wolf, King’s College London, and Member of the Augar Review of Post-18 Education & Funding
- Dr Andrew Jenkins, Associate Professor, Social Research Institute, University College London
- Lord Willetts, Visiting Professor, King’s College London; President, Resolution Foundation Advisory Council; and Minister of State for Universities 2010-14
- John Morgan, Policy and Politics Reporter, Times Higher Education
- Professor Bobby Duffy, Director, Policy Institute King’s College London (chair)