Strengthening Academic Governance into the Future
Much of the discussion within preceding chapters has highlighted ways in which academic voices are constrained within the design and practice of contemporary academic governance and on the particular risks of this. This chapter focuses on identifying ways
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Academic Governance in the Contemporary University Perspectives from Anglophone nations
Academic Governance in the Contemporary University
Julie Rowlands
Academic Governance in the Contemporary University Perspectives from Anglophone nations
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Julie Rowlands School of Education Deakin University Warrnambool Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-2686-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2688-1
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Foreword
A meeting of the senate used to be the beating heart of the traditional university. This was particularly the case in the UK pre 1992 universities. In 1970, Noel (later Lord) Annan, the Provost (head) of University College, London, argued that: Is there a university in the country where [the governing body] is not a dignified rubber stamp. The true governing body is the senate … We should not want to return to the days when Council really governed. We prefer self government by the academic staff. (Quoted in Shattock 2012, p. 215)
Halsey and Trow, writing in 1972, confirmed the view that ‘… not too much must be made of formal constitutions. In practice the effective ruling body of all the modern universities is the Senate’ (Halsey and Trow 1972, p. 111). Moodie and Eustace concluded their path-breaking book of 1974 with the words: ‘The supreme authority, provided that it is exercised in ways responsive to others, must therefore continue to rest with the academics for no one else seems sufficiently qualified to regulate the public affairs of scholars’ (Moodie and Eustace 1974, p. 233). Sena
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