Author
Adam Matthews
Adam Matthews is a senior research fellow in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. Adam’s work looks at universities as part of tertiary education systems and the role that they play as key sites of knowledge production and dissemination in wider society. This includes how technologies and media have and are shaping, knowledge production and access.
6 pieces
Newest first, since December 2023
· Comment
Have elite universities contributed to broken Britain?
Adam Matthews interrogates whether a “meritocratic” view of society, that favours elite higher education as the most legitimate form of aspiration, has fuelled social division in the UK
· Comment
Higher education in general election manifestos – the 2000s
New Labour adopted its infamous 50 per cent participation target and “top up fees” entered the lexicon. Adam Matthews rounds up the HE politics of the 00s
· Comment
Higher education in general election manifestos – the 1980s
Adam Matthews looks beyond the iconography and politics of the Thatcher era to find a surprising degree of political consensus over higher education
· Comment
Higher education in general election manifestos – the 1960s
Adam Matthews tracks higher education expansion through the Westminster parties’ manifestos of the swinging sixties
· Comment
How higher education has showed up in General Election manifestos since 1945
Kicking off a new series on what we can learn from how General Election manifestos have engaged with higher education, Adam Matthews reflects on the changing political fortunes of universities in the past 80 years
· Analysis
TEF submissions reveal a range of conceptions of educational gain
A crowdsourced analysis of TEF submissions shows that there is no single working definition of educational gain. Debbie McVitty, Adam Matthews, and James Coe don’t find that to be a problem
With Debbie McVitty and James Coe