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Gibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley and Friends, Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at our Universities
Dennis Tourish.
Book Review
This is a difficult book to review, simply because the story it tells is so disturbing. The task is made doubly difficult by the context in which it has been published – full-scale financial crisis throughout the sector in the UK, accompanied by increased redundancies. A key factor is that overseas students, who once came in droves, are now staying away in droves. As I began this review in November 2024, the Office for Students reported that it expected nearly three-quarters of English universities to be in deficit by the academic year 2025–26.
