Lehtonen, Aura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6330-4640 (2022) Queering the binary: the politics of the pre/post-1992 division in UK Higher Education. In: Mahn, Churnjeet, Brim, Matt and Taylor, Yvette, (eds.) Queer Sharing in the Marketized University. Routledge- Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 29-43. ISBN 978-1032066578 ; 978-1032066585 ; 978-1003203254 (doi:10.4324/9781003203254)

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Abstract

The separation of old (pre-1992) or research-intensive universities and new (post-1992) or teaching-led universities remains a salient and significant division within the landscape of higher education (HE) in the UK. This chapter examines the division’s continued naturalization by exploring and complicating the discourses of “quality,” “diversity,” and “employability” that commonly attach to it. The division is sustained by a number of widespread assumptions not just about the intellectual labor that takes place at different types of HE institutions but also about the students who study at them, and it therefore has significant discursive and political implications that serve to reinforce educational and other inequalities. This chapter argues that challenging these institutional divisions should be at the forefront of any critical approaches to UK HE and, further, that queer approaches are particularly well placed to offer such a challenge in the spirit of queer sharing across the division.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	diversity; employability; Higher Education; quality; queer
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
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Last Modified:	01 Jun 2024 01:38
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/37140

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