#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths Banquo, Act 1, Scene III, Macbeth. “Kettling is a police tactic to control crowds where officers surround a group of people on all sides. In…
Over at The Disorder of Things, Lee Jones has posted a response made by 80 academics to HEFCE’s Review of Quality Assessment. I have added my name to this, and I am grateful to Lee for his leadership and energies…
There is a symposium being hosted by Coventry University UCU, on Friday 15 September 2015. The symposium is focused on the following two questions. Has the idea of Higher Education as a social good been replaced by the idea of…
I was asked two questions at Bishop Grosseteste University after I spoke on crisis and educational repair earlier today, which made me reflect on “what is to be done?” I interpreted these questions as follows. Given the crises of sociability that…
I’m presenting at the Bishop Grosseteste University learning and teaching conference on Monday 22 June. There is a separate blog-post on my topic of dismantling the curriculum in higher education here. The abstract and some references are linked here. The slides for my…
ONE. Resistance is futile. In discussing the financialisation of higher education, and the marketisation that is immanent to it, Andrew McGettigan has argued that: I am frequently asked, ‘what then should be done?’ My answer is that unless academics rouse…
Two members of staff have been sacked by the University of Bolton for allegedly leaking information to the press about the vice-chancellor, George Holmes… UCU said many staff are angry, confused and frightened after the extraordinary dismissal of two of their…
I spoke yesterday about the relationships between higher education institutions, the policy makers who frame the space inside which the University is being financialised and marketised, the technology companies which are attempting to leverage value from the education sector, and…
On Wednesday I’m presenting at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). The talk discussion is titled: against educational technology in the neoliberal University. There are details/an abstract here. My slides are available from my slideshare.
I am delighted to have a paper accepted by the Open Library of the Humanities on the University and the Secular Crisis. The paper builds on my inaugural, the slides for which are here. It also extends the arguments that…