Flávio Vasconcelos

The Neoliberal University, Academic Capitalism and the Financialisation of Higher Education: The Case of Brazil

This paper investigates how the rapid and extreme financialisation of higher education in the Brazilian case may contribute to theorising the neoliberal university. We present a first-hand empirical study based on Brazil’s seven listed HEIs. We investigate the new actors that control them and analyse their organisation...