Bringing them into the tent – student association and the neutered academy

Rochford, Francine

doi:10.1080/03075079.2014.896184

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“…She finds that universities have established a contractual relationship with students whereby students as customers pay fees for higher education services provided by universities as commercial enterprises. In this environment, the student organisations occupy difficult terrain: 'simultaneously acting as a service provider, student advocate and political lobbyist' which tends to 'a conflation of their interests with that of universities' (Rochfort 2014). Rochfort further notes that student organisations have been depoliticised as part of the universities' marketisation.…”

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Student power in a global perspective and contemporary trends in student organising

Klemenčić

2014

Studies in Higher Education

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Students, if organised into representative student governments or movements, can be a highly influential agency shaping higher education policy. This article introduces the Special Issue on student power in a global perspective, which addresses the question of how students are organised in different world regions and what role they play in higher education policymaking within universities or at the national level. The article discusses conceptual considerations in the study of student governments and movements and reviews the contemporary trends in student organising globally.

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Section: Introducing the Special Issuementioning

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Student power in a global perspective and contemporary trends in student organising

Klemenčić

2014

Studies in Higher Education

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“…Recruiting new members from the student body is an important way for a party to renew itself and gain members with competences that may be useful (FDC leader A, October 22, 2013;Guild leaders A and B, October 23, 2013;UPC leaders A and B, October 17, 2013). This point has also been made in very different contexts by Hooghe et al (2004), Rochford (2014) and much earlier by Weinberg and Walker (1969).…”

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Student representation and the relationship between student leaders and political Parties: The case of Makerere University

Mugume

Luescher

2017

SAJHE

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What are the characteristics and implications of the relationship between student leaders and national political parties in African universities? As the most prestigious university of Uganda,Makerere University represents a model case for investigating the involvement of political parties in student politics. Drawing on propositions adapted from Weinberg and Walker (1969), Schmitter andStreeck (1999), and others, this article uses data generated by means of in-depth interviews and an online survey to analyse the relationship between political parties and student leaders. It considers the reasons why student leaders and political parties establish a relationship; how it is maintained; and what its effects are on student leaders' ability to represent student interests. It finds that various kinds of resource exchange are key to understanding the relationship and considers its implications. The article concludes by recommending institutional interventions to curb the extent of resources that a party can provide to student leaders so as to contain the negative effects of the relationship while maintaining the potential for universities to act as 'training grounds' of democracy.

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“…Such contemporary constructions also tend to operate with a relatively narrow understanding of political engagement. While involvement in on-campus activities associated with formal politics tends to be limited, and students' unions in a number of countries of the world have become less 'activist' in their orientation (for example, Rochford, 2014;Nissen and Hayward, 2017), students nevertheless have a relatively high level of political interest (Abrahams and Brooks, 2019;Brooks et al, 2020b) and graduates are more likely than others to be politically engaged in later life (Olcese et al, 2014). Moreover, comparative work in Australia, the US and UK has shown that small student societies can play an important role in encouraging students to develop their political identity and emerge as 'student citizens' (Loader et al, 2015).…”

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Constructing the Higher Education Student

Brooks¹,

Gupta²,

Jayadeva³

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EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Amid debates about the future of both higher education and Europeanisation, this book is the first full-length exploration of how Europe’s 35 million students are understood by key social actors across different nations. The various chapters compare and contrast conceptualisations in six nations, held by policymakers, higher education staff, media and students themselves. With an emphasis on students’ lived experiences, the authors provide new perspectives about how students are understood, and the extent to which European higher education is homogenising. They explore various prominent constructions of students – including as citizens, enthusiastic learners, future workers and objects of criticism.

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Bringing them into the tent – student association and the neutered academy

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Student power in a global perspective and contemporary trends in student organising

Student power in a global perspective and contemporary trends in student organising

Student representation and the relationship between student leaders and political Parties: The case of Makerere University

Constructing the Higher Education Student

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