#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Martin McQuillan has argued that the Coalition Government is placing borrowing at the heart of the UK’s higher education system. He notes that: Against all expectations George Osborne’s Autumn statement announced that the cap on student numbers in England would…
Marx was clear that given the nature of capitalist social relations, there can be no balanced growth or equilibrium reached inside production for the market. The history of crises, and of both State and transnational responses to those crises, crystallises…
I’m presenting at the the CAPPE Neoliberalism and Everyday Life conference next September, at the University of Brighton. My abstract is below. Abstract: Neoliberalism is a global pedagogical project aimed at the dispossession of free time so that all of…
There is no us, there is only I, Dropped like a tear from my mother’s eye. Mother do you know your son at all? Looking for the things he’ll never find, Talks too much about suicide, Who can tell what’s…
“It isn’t for the moment that you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh. “You have to carry the fire.” “I don’t know how to.”…
ONE. Elsewhere on this blog I recently wrote about the domination of merchants in higher education: The links between commercial educational providers and universities, educators and students as producers and consumers of educational services, data and products, demonstrate power and…
With Joss Winn from the University of Lincoln, I’m running a workshop at the Discourse, Power and Resistance conference next Easter. Our abstract is as follows. [Note that Mike Neary from Lincoln is also running a session on The University and…
Merchants dominate producers now. Commercial capital and money-dealing capital dominate productive capital. The expropriation of surplus value from producers by merchant capital is a primary source of profit. In educational production, in the production of curriculum resources, in the funding…
ONE. Staking out and enclosing y/our education: they have to create a market They want to marketise our pedagogy. They want to marketise our interactions with students and staff. They want to create a market by quantifying y/our interactions with…
ONE. Educational truth: there is no alternative to economic growth David Willetts’ speaking at the UK Quality Assurance Agency, We need to talk about Quality: MOOCs: when Goldman Sachs are investing and Stamford say it is significant and big players…