An expert on university management has proposed two "Hippocratic oaths" for higher education – one for faculty members and one for managers – which he says could help negotiations when conflict arises.
In a paper in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, Geoff Sharrock, program director of the master of tertiary education management at the University of Melbourne, says that management does not always "mesh well" with scholarly professionalism, and there can be "intractable conflicts" between those who identify with one or the other domain.
