#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 1 September 2011 Closure and exclusion Following his leadership of the successful Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) occupation and work-in of 1971-72, the Communist and trades unionist Jimmy Reid was elected as Rector of the…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 12 July 2011 Brian Lamb has highlighted two quotes that made me think about politics, power, consensus and the web, and most importantly, about History. David Eaves, Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 29 June 2011 Nervously, and without any real need whatever, Franny pushed back her hair with one hand. ‘I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 9 June 2011 Last week Joss Winn reminded me of the urgency of the work that he and I have been doing in the last year around resilience, tied to the impacts of liquid…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 20 May 2011 Mobile and wireless technologies are often described in terms of efficiency and productivity, or in terms of their provision of “flexible and timely access to learning resources, instantaneous communication, portability, active…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 12 May 2011 “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 April 2011 Sarah Amsler has recently asked: Why aren’t more academics speaking and acting out in greater earnest against the destructive policies of privatization, marketization and corporatization now being imposed on and from…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 28 March 2011 The slides for this workshop are available on my slideshare. Introduction: beyond cuts and taxation In a recent workshop on the alternative to cuts, DMU’s Sally Ruane argued that if the…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 7 February 2011 Over the weekend, I attended “For People and Planet: Not Profit and Self-Destruction: Can Universities make the move towards, or even lead ‘transition’?” What follows are the questions that it raised…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 14 December 2010 In a recent note on technology, outsourcing and the privatisation of higher education, I argued that hegemonic economic arguments, uncritically focused on short-term efficiency gains and the perceived flexibility of cloud-based…