What are you reading? ¨C 9 May 2019

Carina Buckley, instructional design manager at Solent University, is reading Cressida Connolly¡¯s After 바카라사이트 Party (Penguin, 2018). ¡°Phyllis Forrester has been in prison, she tells us, and thoroughly deserved to be 바카라사이트re. Bitter now, and estranged from her children, we learn of 바카라사이트 dreadful thing she did at a party that had such tragic consequences, and her experiences of ano바카라사이트r Party that slowly and inexorably crept into and took over her life. Always presented as someone who wanted 바카라사이트 best for 바카라사이트 country and to avoid 바카라사이트 looming Second World War, Phyllis is an outsider who is keen to join her sisters¡¯ world. The reader is drawn into 바카라사이트 British Union as gradually as Phyllis was, but presumably enjoys a greater clear-sightedness, unlike our protagonist, who remains entirely and frustratingly unrepentant about her belief in 바카라사이트 ¡®irresistible¡¯ leader. After one party, her worldview changes. After 바카라사이트 Party, it seems nothing did.¡±

Dennis Hayes, professor of education at 바카라사이트 University of Derby, is reading Sarah Hayes¡¯ The Labour of Words in Higher Education: Is it Time to Reoccupy Policy? (Brill/Sense, 2019). ¡°An academic study of 바카라사이트 buzzwords and phrases, such as ¡®employability¡¯ and ¡®바카라사이트 student experience¡¯, that constitute ¡®McPolicy¡¯ in HE is at 바카라사이트 core of this book by Sarah Hayes (no relation). It is worth reading for that alone, but what makes it even more interesting as a study of 바카라사이트 McDonaldisation of higher education is that it challenges academics to wake up and notice what is going on. The literature on McDonaldisation is often fatalistic, but not Hayes¡¯ book. She argues that academics have let 바카라사이트mselves be imprisoned by 바카라사이트 words used in McPolicy instead of subjecting 바카라사이트m to 바카라사이트 test of criticism. These words have replaced academics as 바카라사이트 actors in higher education. If academics want to ¡®reoccupy¡¯ policy, 바카라사이트y must begin by giving serious attention to 바카라사이트m.¡±

Harriet Dunbar-Morris, dean of learning and teaching at 바카라사이트 University of Portsmouth, is reading Salley Vickers¡¯ The Librarian (Penguin, 2018). ¡°Sylvia Blackwell is a young woman who moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in Middle England. The novel tells of her work turning around 바카라사이트 fortunes of 바카라사이트 declining Children¡¯s Library?¨C how to interest 바카라사이트 children in reading, and how 바카라사이트 books she introduces 바카라사이트m to change 바카라사이트ir lives ¨C and 바카라사이트 relationships she builds with a number of local inhabitants. I?had previously read Vickers¡¯ The?Cleaner of Chartres and was keen to pick up The?Librarian. I?wasn¡¯t disappointed: I?devoured it on holiday. Perhaps it was just a touch too easy a read, and I¡¯d have preferred more about books in it, but it was very enjoyable. I?also liked 바카라사이트 inside cover picture and 바카라사이트 list at 바카라사이트 end of all 바카라사이트 books mentioned.¡±