8/17/2019 A Key Question That Arises is How Academic Capitalism Affects the Autonomy of the Academic Work

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A key question that arises is how Academic Capitalism affects the autonomy of the

academic work?

This further raises a series of issues about the promotion, development and eventualcommodification of HE, including

who is promoting Academic Capitalism and setting societal priorities and policies!

 what kind of academic work is getting funded and why!

 how different programs are being restructured to better suit market ideology!

  how is e"isting infrastructure influencing the future institutional development?

Altogether, such issues highlight the uncertainty underlying the Academic Capitalism incountries like Canada and the need to know how this marketi#ation of knowledge and education

is being imagined and implemented$

 This paper answers these questions and the issues related to them$ %t analy#es the policies, narratives and priorities underpinning Academic Capitalism in HE institutions in

Canada

 %t further e"amines how different social actors &e$g$ government, academic and non'academic staff, students, temporary teaching assistants, publishing companies etc$( shape the

development and commerciali#ation of HE$

 )oreover, this paper will also identify the constraints on keeping the market out of theHE institutions$

 And it will conclusively suggest that introduction of academic capitalism affects the

academics &scholars and students( and the autonomy of their work negatively$