‍Though we recognise that knowledge is widely contested, we rarely think about the politics of its making. We also tend to discount its influence on culture, economy, the exercise of rule, and social futures. All are prefigured by what and how we know, which is why it matters so much who decides what knowledge is made and taught.

Universities are key sites in the production and translation of knowledge. When governments or other powerful actors (including vice chancellors) intervene in what they teach and research, we must hold them to forensic account.



Fears for university independence – who decides what is taught - Newsroom

From the University of Auckland – Opinion: Universities are restructuring themselves, but are they responding to government drivers or are their leaders exercising their new capacity to interpret universities anew?

newsroom.co.nz