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Guest editorial: the end of the British public university? (2011)
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Hall, M. (2011). Guest editorial: the end of the British public university?. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 3(1), 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/17561451111122570

Purpose – This editorial aims to review key changes in the legislation that governs student finance in England, showing how these changes will have a significant impact on the concept of the public university in Britain.

Design/methodology/approac... Read More about Guest editorial: the end of the British public university?.

The social cost of variable tuition fees (2010)
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Hall, M. (2010). The social cost of variable tuition fees

Newspaper article outlining how variable tuition fees could penalise universities that offer the best chances to students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds

Minerva's owl. A response to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The economic implications of alternative publishing models' (2010)
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Hall, M. (2010). Minerva's owl. A response to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The economic implications of alternative publishing models'. Prometheus, 28(1), 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/08109021003676375

Like Hegel’s owl of Minerva, scholars are arriving at the realization of the existence of the knowledge economy after dusk. (Drahos and Braithwaite, 2002, p. 39)

Houghton and Oppenheim’s cost–benefit analysis of different forms of scholarly publis... Read More about Minerva's owl. A response to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The economic implications of alternative publishing models'.

New knowledge and the university (2009)
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Hall, M. (2009). New knowledge and the university. Anthropology Southern Africa, 32(1/2), 69-76

What forms of knowledge have legitimacy in the contemporary university? By using Actor-Network Theory to unravel the strands in a recent dispute about access to skeletons from a burial ground in Cape Town. This paper shows how circulating systems of... Read More about New knowledge and the university.

New Subjectivities: Capitalist, Colonial Subject and Archaeologist. Review of "Capitalism in Colonial Contexts". Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, January 2008 (2009)
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Hall, M. (2009). New Subjectivities: Capitalist, Colonial Subject and Archaeologist. Review of "Capitalism in Colonial Contexts". Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, January 2008. Archaeologies, 5(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-008-9086-4

The sub-discipline of Historical Archaeology continues to push out its borders from its origins as the archaeology of British colonial settlement in North America. This review article evaluates the contribution of a set of papers presented at the Soc... Read More about New Subjectivities: Capitalist, Colonial Subject and Archaeologist. Review of "Capitalism in Colonial Contexts". Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, January 2008.

The objects of transformation in higher education (2008)
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Hall, M. (2008). The objects of transformation in higher education. Social Dynamics, 34(1), 74-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533950802078962

This paper reviews the purposes of higher education in South Africa through to lens the 1997 Education White Paper. It is argued that, while the principles of the White Paper have shaped the development of the higher education system over the followi... Read More about The objects of transformation in higher education.

Identity, memory and countermemory: the archaeology of an urban landscape (2006)
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Hall, M. (2006). Identity, memory and countermemory: the archaeology of an urban landscape. Journal of Material Culture, 11(1/2), 189-209. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183506063021

Urban landscapes are both expressions of identity, and a means of shaping the relationships between those who inhabit them. They are palimpsests in which buildings, street layouts and monumental structures are interpreted and reinterpreted as changin... Read More about Identity, memory and countermemory: the archaeology of an urban landscape.

Academic freedom and the university: Fifty years of debate (2006)
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Hall, M. (2006). Academic freedom and the university: Fifty years of debate. South African Journal of Higher Education, 20(3), 8-16

Contemporary debates about academic freedom and institutional autonomy in South Africa’s “liberal” universities began in the 1950s, stimulated by the policies and legislation for racial segregation. At the University of Cape Town (UCT), these debates... Read More about Academic freedom and the university: Fifty years of debate.

Have South African universities lost their autonomy in the first decade of democracy? A response to Jonathan Jansen (2005)
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Hall, M. (2005). Have South African universities lost their autonomy in the first decade of democracy? A response to Jonathan Jansen

Academic freedom and institutional autonomy are often assumed to be synonymous. In some debates about higher education in South Africa, this assumption has led to the supposition that universities are less autonomous – and therefore less free – than... Read More about Have South African universities lost their autonomy in the first decade of democracy? A response to Jonathan Jansen.

South African higher education in the first decade of democracy: from cooperative governance to conditional autonomy (2005)
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Hall, M., & Symes, A. (2005). South African higher education in the first decade of democracy: from cooperative governance to conditional autonomy. Studies in Higher Education, 30(2), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070500043317

This paper tracks policies in the governance of higher education over the first decade of South Africa's democracy. The first democratically elected government of 1994 was faced with the formidable task of dismantling the structures of apartheid educ... Read More about South African higher education in the first decade of democracy: from cooperative governance to conditional autonomy.

Las Vegas in Africa (2005)
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Hall, M., & Bombardella, P. (2005). Las Vegas in Africa. Journal of Social Archaeology, 5(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605305050141

Recent years have seen substantial capital investments in 'destination resorts', manyof which utilize heritage themes to attract consumers. This movement was led by the renaissance of Las Vegas and by major urban destination project, and coincided wi... Read More about Las Vegas in Africa.

Evaluating the use of synchronous communication in two blended courses (2004)
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Cox, G., Carr, T., & Hall, M. (2004). Evaluating the use of synchronous communication in two blended courses. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 20(3), 183-193

Residential universities are increasingly integrating online interaction within courses in the form of synchronous online chats, asynchronous online discussions and access to interactive
resources. This article evaluates the educational effectivenes... Read More about Evaluating the use of synchronous communication in two blended courses.

The culture of governance in South African public higher education (2004)
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Hall, M., Symes, A., & Luescher, T. (2004). The culture of governance in South African public higher education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 26(1), 91-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080042000182555

The South African public higher education system is at a point of transition as the mould of segregation is broken through a process of mergers and incorporations. This paper reports a study of governance at this transitional stage. Using case studie... Read More about The culture of governance in South African public higher education.

Social archaeology and the theatres of memory (2001)
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Hall, M. (2001). Social archaeology and the theatres of memory. Journal of Social Archaeology, 1(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/146960530100100104

Archaeology is a study of ways in which we express ourselves through the things that we make and use, collect, discard and take for granted, all archaeology is social archaeology. And, because the past is always part of the present, social archaeolog... Read More about Social archaeology and the theatres of memory.

Straylight, mala mala, pink frikkie, blekgelexy and rumba kali @ Africa (2001)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (2001). Straylight, mala mala, pink frikkie, blekgelexy and rumba kali @ Africa

History gives us the opportunity of perspective. But in the "Network Society", time moves too fast for hindsight. An appropriate metaphor is that of quantum mechanics, in which matter exists in two states at the same time. Consequently, the invitatio... Read More about Straylight, mala mala, pink frikkie, blekgelexy and rumba kali @ Africa.