#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
This year I have written increasingly about the following issues. The mechanisms through which higher education as a previously socialised or social good has been marketised, in order that value can be extracted from it. The mechanisms that inscribe the…
I In analyses of the circuits and cycles of capitalism, interpretations of crises underpin our individual and collective responses to them. In classical interpretations, overproduction/under-consumption or the tendency of the rate of profit to fall have dominated discussions of what…
I presented earlier today at the London Festival of Education. I blogged what I intended to say here. What I wish I had said is given below. FIRST. On care: one might define care as a positive perception of assistance…
In a posting on Pearson and the privatisation of academic labour I noted that the acceleration of privatisation inside and against the higher education sector was re-structuring universities as: an architecture is opened-up that threatens the public funding, regulation and…
PART ONE: on oil and capitalism In a paper on Carbon Democracy, Tim Mitchell, historian at Columbia University argues that the production and maintenance of democracy, and the bodies that encompass civil and political society in the global North, have…
An informal reading group met last night to discuss Niall Ferguson’s Reith Lectures. The general consensus was that the lectures represent a crisis of hegemonic neoliberalism, with a picture being created of the structures of political and civil society being…
I I am becoming more interested in the transition or transformation of academic labour inside an increasingly neoliberal university, and the ways in which technology is used to quicken that transition and discipline that labour. In this I am reminded…
Call for Proposals: TEL, the Crisis and the Response The Alpine Rendez-Vous The Alpine Rendez-Vous (ARV) is an established atypical scientific event focused on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). The ARV series of events are promoted by TELEARC and EATEL associations.…
On Friday 15 June, I attended a University of Nottingham, UCU-branch-sponsored symposium on the public university. These are my notes. Quiet down (We are the dollars and cents and the pounds and pence) (And the mark and the yen and…
I’m presenting at the University of Lincoln’s Centre for Educational Research and Development conference on Thursday June 7. I’ll be speaking about Educational technology and the war on public education. My slides are on my slideshare. There is a fuller…