ABSTRACT
Marketisation inevitably affects the extent to which the authors take a critical view of pedagogy. This chapter explains that one approach to counteract this potential decline is to encourage more academics to carry out action research in learning and teaching, which Norton Lin term pedagogical action research. The author contends that researching pedagogies not only contributes to theoretical knowledge but also compels university teachers to reflect critically and systematically on practice. In one of his latest works, Brown reflects on the fall of the public service model of UK higher education, giving us a careful and scholarly analysis of the way that UK higher education has developed since the 1990s. He has described some of the main features of this UK reform in a Higher Education Policy. The whole purpose of university education is constantly shifting and at present, the indications are that universities are rapidly becoming training grounds for employment rather than seats of learning.
