#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I have an article published on SpringerLink, as part of the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, edited by Michael Peters. The article is on openness and power. The full article is available here. I’ve appended the introduction below. Openness…
I In a presentation at DMU today Bahram Bekhradnia of the Higher Education Policy Institute argued that research inside universities was being conducted at the expense of teaching. His evidence for this was not academic staff workload data, but student…
This post was written whilst listening to Sharon van Etten’s Glastonbury set from 2015. One: Preamble This is a post about the proletarianisation of the university. This is a post about the exploitation of our labour-time. This is a post…
I My two most recent articles have referenced Rhodes Must Fall. The first, “Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety” (with Kate Bowles), argues that narratives of solidarity, in particular from marginalised voices, might…
With Keith Smyth I have a paper forthcoming an Open Library of Humanities Journal, special edition on the abolition of the University. Our paper focuses on the higher education curriculum. It draws on Keith’s work on the space-time of the…
I have a new article out in Interactive Learning Environments. It is based on some work I was involved in with in 2013 with Helen Beetham, Debbie Holley and John Traxler, including a panel at ALT-C on global crises and…
Turn the light out say goodnight, no thinking for a little while Let’s not try to figure out everything at once It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky We’re half awake in a fake empire The…
I read these pieces as I listened to The Smiths, Strangeways Here We Come. it seems that the panopticon is about to be extended across the whole academic hierarchy with the introduction of ‘faculty dashboards’. These are tools which allow…
This is a collection of stuff related to the Green paper, grouped into: Political economics; Sector responses; HE marketisation; Teaching excellence; Learning gain; HE governance; Quality Assurance/regulation; and Research. It is not exhaustive and I probably won’t add to it. NOTE:…
I’m presenting at The Northern Universities Consortium (NUCCAT) annual conference in Manchester tomorrow. The abstract I agreed in appended below, alongside the key points that I will try to make about the issues and practices that are affecting how higher…