#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
ONE. Universities as tools of economic progress and social mobility. The HE Bill reaching the Lords has catalysed a fresh discussion around ideas, first, of the University itself, and second, of academic freedom. These are the perceived form/purpose and content…
With Joss Winn, I’m presenting at the Co-operative Education and Research Conference 2017. The abstract is presented below. Higher education in the UK is in crisis. The idea of the public university is under assault, and both the future of the…
<for some to succeed, some have to fail> The government is trying to create a market in the education system. This … is the right track for reform, but at the moment there’s a risk that we’re building in the…
The reflection in the water showed an iron man still trying to salute People from a time when he was everything he’s supposed to be Everything means nothing to me Everything means nothing to me Elliott Smith. 2000. Everything means…
ONE. The mobilisation of neo-liberalism In ‘Remaking the World’: Neo-liberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teachers’ Labour, Susan Robertson argues that the roll-back of education and the expertise of the teacher, in order to roll-out private sector alternatives is…
In his mid-40s, John had worked as a casual university tutor since finishing his PhD in philosophy 15 years ago. Passed over a few times for tenured jobs, he was a long-term member of the academic reserve army, the members…
(It might be over soon, two two) Where you gonna look for confirmation? And if it’s ever gonna happen So as I’m standing at the station It might be over soon Bon Iver. 2016. 22 (OVER S∞∞N) Academia can be a…
I have three things recently published or forthcoming that are about academic labour and its relationship to society. These pick-up on two themes that have been increasingly important to me: first, academic alienation and anxiety, or the idea that the…
On Monday I contributed to a panel discussion on Prospects for Peace Education in the Neoliberal Era, as part of the Adam Curle Symposium hosted by the Peace Studies Division at University of Bradford. I made the following points.. ONE.…
On Monday I’m at the University of Bradford speaking at a panel session at the Peaceful Relations and the Transformation of the World: An Academic-Practitioner Dialogue on Peace in the 21st Century. The panel is on Prospects for Peace Education…