Watermeyer Richard, Olssen Mark
Department of Education, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY UK.
School of Social Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH UK.
Minerva. 2016;54:201-218. doi: 10.1007/s11024-016-9298-5. Epub 2016 May 4.
A performance-based funding system like the United Kingdom's 'Research Excellence Framework' (REF) symbolizes the re-rationalization of higher education according to neoliberal ideology and New Public Management technologies. The REF is also significant for disclosing the kinds of behaviour that characterize universities' response to government demands for research auditability. In this paper, we consider the casualties of what Henry Giroux (2014) calls "neoliberalism's war on higher education" or more precisely the deleterious consequences of non-participation in the REF. We also discuss the ways with which higher education's competition fetish, embodied within the REF, affects the instrumentalization of academic research and the diminution of academic freedom, autonomy and criticality.
像英国“卓越研究框架”（REF）这样基于绩效的资助体系，象征着高等教育依据新自由主义意识形态和新公共管理技术进行的重新合理化。REF对于揭示大学应对政府研究可审计性要求所表现出的行为类型也具有重要意义。在本文中，我们考量亨利·吉鲁（2014年）所称的“新自由主义对高等教育的战争”的牺牲品，或者更确切地说，是不参与REF的有害后果。我们还讨论了REF所体现的高等教育竞争癖好影响学术研究工具化以及学术自由、自主性和批判性削弱的方式。
