Critical commentary reveals systemic suffering and moral injury among university educators, highlighting the negative consequences of market-driven higher education reforms.
This paper is a sequel to The I-spy Guide to the neoliberal university published in this journal in 2012 and identifies a set of issues/perturbations and the current landscape of ‘experience’ in contemporary Higher Education. It is a tale of human suffering, misfortune, the downfall of a noble protagonist, leading to a calamitous and unhappy ending and the rise of academic 2.0.
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