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Nadolny, Andrew; Ryan, Suzanne – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The McDonaldization of higher education refers to the transformation of universities from knowledge generators to rational service organizations or "McUniversities". This is reflected in the growing dependence on a casualized academic workforce. The article explores the extent to which the McDonaldization thesis applies to universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Commercialization, Employees
Bynner, John – 2002
The relationship between literacy, numeracy, and employability was examined by analyzing data on basic skills that were collected in two of Great Britain's birth cohort studies--the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study. The functional literacy and numeracy skills of samples of 10% of the participants in each study…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship