Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Critical university studies: defining a field; 2 The student as consumer and commodity; 3 Marketing the goods; 4 Language and audit culture 1: research and performance management; 5 Language and audit culture 2: the case of the Teaching Excellence Framework; 6 Colonising the corporate academic; 7 Conclusions: possibilities for contesting the discourse; Glossary of terms; Index