(I wrote this in 2018 for a proposed UCU collection on managerialism in Higher Education, which seems to have been abandoned. In case anyone might be interested,… Read more “Managerialism and governance”
Category: governance
Still the same old story
[CN: suicide] Short version: the only people with a clue are the union. Much about the running of universities can be explained by thinking of senior management… Read more “Still the same old story”
Governance
Saving the souls of Vice-Chancellors through kinder, gentler governance.
Election address
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, where we recently toppled the highest-paid Vice-Chancellor in the land after nearly a decade of campaigning on transparency in pay and governance. In November of last year, Bath was criticized by HEFCE who acknowledged that our campaign had been ignored by management who would have done better to pay attention. Since our success at Bath, campaigns have been established at other universities, and the questions of governance and executive pay have become central.
Michael Carley on UCU HEC 