Introducing new ideas on the relationships between the pursuit of excellence in higher education and how power is wielded in Europe and other neoliberal capitalist societies, this book emphasises how new coercive strategies, political decisions, management styles have emerged in the age of excellence in higher education.

Dedication
Acknowledgments

Part I: Higher Education and the Crisis of Politics in Europe
Chapter 1: Rethinking the changing landscape of higher education
Chapter 2: Higher education and critical pedagogy: A path forward

Part II: Neoliberal Ideology and the Politics of the Quality Agenda in the UK and Europe
Chapter 3: Confronting the quality agenda: A case study
Chapter 4: Legitimising the quality agenda: Evolution and the politics of normalization

Part III: The New Managerialism and the Changing Face of Higher Education
Chapter 5: The changing politics of governance in higher education under neoliberalism
Chapter 6: Rethinking higher education beyond the neoliberal paradigm

Part IV: Challenges and Possibilities
Chapter 7: Critical pedagogy in the age of multiple pandemics (with Henry A. Giroux)
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Why higher education policy, pedagogy, and research should not be neutral: Reclaiming higher education as a public good

Ourania Filippakou is Reader in Education and Director of Teaching and Learning at Brunel University London. Her research focuses the politics of higher education, critical pedagogy, and cultural politics with particular reference to comparative historical analysis, university entrepreneurialism, and marketization. She has published widely in a number of scholarly journals. In 2007 she was elected as a council member of the Society for Research into Higher Education and served as co-editor for the British Educational Research Journal from 2018-2021. Currently she is a co-editor for the Routledge book series Critical Interventions: Politics, Culture and the Promise of Democracy.