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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Contents 8 Series editor’s foreword 9 Acknowledgements 11 Prologue: my own journey 14 1 The big picture: universities in a changing society 17 2 Finding a compass and mapping the terrain 42 3 Policy priorities: instrumentality, scientization, degendering 59 4 Gentleman’s club or medieval court? 80 5 There is no problem; or, if there is, the problem is women 101 6 ‘Think manager–think male’? 122 7 An attractive job, but no place for a woman? 141 8 Summary and conclusions 159 Appendix: socio-economic realities in contemporary Irish society 178 References 182 Index 216 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2015,ISBN:9781526103093,Language:English,OCLC:894476902 This book is a definitive examination of higher education: locating it in a wider neo-liberal context involving the state and the market, with a specific focus on recent higher policy and on the elite group of senior managers in universities. Written in a clear accessible style, it provides an in-depth analysis of university structures, cultures and practices at senior management level. Despite the managerialist rhetoric of accountability, we see structures where access to

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Author
O'Connor, Pat
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781526103093
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Education, History

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