This week on The Exchange, we speak to Dr James Foley, a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, about the deepening crisis facing Scotland’s universities and the wider challenges confronting higher education.
We look at the range of pressures around funding, staffing and student numbers. And we examine the bigger questions about what universities are for, how the academic system has changed, and where it is heading. We discuss the changing nature of academia and the impact of managerialism, and assess the rise of “culture war” politics, looking at the recent coverage of Jason Arday.
Key questions:
Is the university system facing a temporary crisis, or a much deeper transformation?
How does the academic system interlock with the major schisms in capitalism today?
How should we understand the dynamics of the culture war and academia?
What should the left say?
We will be back on Friday for the next edition of The Line.
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