The Changing Academic Profession in the UK from the New Public Management Perspective
The British higher education reform has showed a stronger tendency of new managerialism than other countries.During the process of the implementation of New Public Management reform in the British higher education,the British government,the stakeholders,the professional management staff and the market mechanism have all reshaped the academic profession in terms of academics identity,governance model,evaluation system and the drive force mechanism.Specifically,the academic profession identity has transformed from the professional elite into the knowledge workers,the academic profession internal governance has developed from the collegial management into the entrepreneurial management,the evaluation system has changed from the peer assessment to the external evaluation and the drive force has evolved from the academic logic to the efficiency logic.In the meantime,the academic profession group has undergone such difficult situations as the rising academic capitalism,the declining traditional academic ideal and the academic identity crisis.