Managerial governmentality and the suppression of ethics / Lew Zipin and Marie Brennan -- Reclaiming academic research work from regulation and relegation / Lisa Lucas -- The neo-conservative assault on the undergraduate curriculum / Steven Selden -- Higher education, globalization and the knowledge economy / Michael Peters -- Training the imagination to go visiting / Jean Barr and Morwenna Griffiths -- Sitting uneasily at the table / Judyth Sachs -- Learning the language of deliberative democracy / Jon Nixon -- Pedagogies of beginning / Melanie Walker -- The new media in an old institution: implementing the change/containing the potential for transformation / Rob Walker -- Under new management? A critical history of managerialism in British universities / Colin Bundy -- Beyond the impossibly good place: research and scholarship / Melanie Walker.