Post-Modernism, Deprofessionalisation and Commodification: The Outcomes of Performance Measurement in Higher Education

摘要: The central argument of this paper is that current regimes performance measurement in the UK's higher education sector are unlikely to deliver any real improvements performance. Rather, the argues, most likely outcomes will be further increases the deprofessionalisation academic staff and commodification work they carry out. The paper reaches conclusion for three main reasons. First, reflect the triumph a flawed post-modern philosophy which privileges emphasises system deconstruction economic functionality. Second, reflect installment in the two decade old story New Public Management (NPM) transformation public sector through importation private practices philosophies. Finally, regimes will not on their objectives because fundamentally terms of management process.