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"Millions of pounds are spent on educational research each year in the UK alone. By far the greatest proportion of this expenditure is on research which is thought to have practical relevance to educational problems and the vast majority of this is spent on empirical educational research, that is educational research which examines and seeks explanations for actual or proposed educational practices or the kinds of activities, institutions or policies that prepare young people for life (Pring, 2015, p. 27)...

Destructive forces have been eroding the University of Cape Town, Africa's leading university. This book tells the sad, true tale of what has been transpiring. It is a saga of lunacy, criminality, pandering, and identity politics. The mad and the bad - the deranged, deluded, the depraved - have been granted endless latitude in bullying and abusing others.

"Higher education is facing a series of challenges that are redefining the nature of universities. From initiatives to make higher education economically efficient to social justice calls to open the field to a broader range of students, the field of higher education is in a state of flux. Yet studies about higher education teaching and learning, assessment and curricula remain theoretically underdeveloped and segmented by discipline and country. This book illustrates how Legitimation Code Theory is helping to transform the field by bringing research together from across the disciplinary map and by enabling practical change in a rigorously theorised way"