#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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…
My reading of the Higher Education Green paper sits alongside that of the Universities and Colleges Union, with its highlighting of the critical absence of staff inside education policy. My reading emerges against the UK Treasury’s Productivity Plan, Fixing the…
I’ve had an article published in the Open Library of Humanities, based on my inaugural lecture. If you want to revisit those fun-times, you can do so here. The article is also on “The University and the Secular Crisis”, and…
Two edited collections, “Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism” and “Marx and the Political Economy of the Media“, have just been published by Brill. With Bernd Stahl, I have a chapter in the latter called: Against Commodification: The University,…
I’m really excited to have become a Trustee for the Open Library of Humanities. Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards have been working tirelessly on developing financial/governance, technological, academic and social models for the OLH as an alternative, open access publishing…
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…
Tied up in disgrace/How can we keep a man so long/Waiting for a fate/Stripped of all our hearts/Never dreamed we would belong/In a world, a world that’s just gone wrong And if we try to stand alone/We’ll be playing with…
educational value-in-motion it is clear that universities must do more to demonstrate they add real and lasting value for all students. Now that we are asking young people to meet more of the costs of their degrees once they are…
A while back Andrew McGettigan ended a piece on Financialising the University with a call for action. It goes without saying that this process [negotiated independence for the elite or shedding charitable status the better to access private finance] and…
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.…