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Graham, Andrew T. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
Higher education in the UK is under increasing pressure to manage the workload of its academic staff in a way that maximises the outputs from teaching and research. The emergence of this trend can be traced back to 1989 and the government legislation that introduced neo-liberal managerialism into the sector mirroring the laissez-faire approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Faculty Workload, Neoliberalism
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Thompson, Carol; Wolstencroft, Peter – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
This article examines the important but under-researched role of the curriculum manager within further education. It reviews managers' perceptions of the role through the lens of the professional-managerial paradigm, with a particular emphasis on the conflict in values experienced by managers trying to implement processes driven by the financial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Administrators