#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
slower and more calculated/no chance of escape/now self-employed/concerned (but powerless)/an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)/ calm/fitter, healthier and more productive/a pig/in a cage/on antibiotics Radiohead. 1997. Fitter. Happier. ONE. Endings Endings are important. Fucked-up endings remain.…
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…
anxiety aŋˈzʌɪəti/ noun a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome: “he felt a surge of anxiety” Synonyms: worry; concern; apprehension; apprehensiveness; consternation; unease; fearfulness; disquiet; perturbation; fretfulness; agitation; angst; nervousness; stress; trepidation; foreboding; suspense.…
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…
Businessmen drink my blood Like the kids in art school said they would Arcade Fire. 2011. Ready to Start. ONE. We are losing that University life, which bell hooks wrote about as a space and a time for self-actualisation: a…
> Data-driven educational consumption…< Efficacy is a deceptively simple but incredibly powerful idea – that every product we sell should be measured and judged by the learning outcomes it helps to achieve. Every decision, every process, every investment we now…
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…
Some follow-on notes on the proletarianisation of the University. Going to school, being a student is work. This work is called schoolwork although it is not usually considered to really be work since we don’t receive any wages for doing…
In June 2009 the ‘52group’ gathered from across the Higher Education sector to consider the confluence of education and the digital. The result was a position paper entitled ‘Preparing for the postdigital era’. At the time the paper was largely…