The Widening Gyre

The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial public benefit needs to be supported by profit-making activity, argues Martin Mills

The veneer of the neo-liberal university's rhetorical vocabulary obscures profound contradictions, even in business terms.

Trying to serve students and society puts academe under unbearable strain, says Martin Mills.