In its pursuit of advancing legal discourse in the scholarship of teaching and learning, in 2022 the Faculty of Law identified an area of teaching and learning that has had very little academic attention, being the corporatisation of higher institutional education structures (specifically universities). The changing nature of universities and the greater drive for financial profitability has had both a negative and positive impact on the functioning of universities, but also on pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning, as well as students generally. It is against this background that the Faculty of Law embarked on this book project to start this important conversation as to how the corporatisation of universities and the drive for profitability may impact the functioning of such higher educational institutions (HEIs), the teaching and learning, as well as the student cohort generally.
