#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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…
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…
I have a new article out in Learning, Media and Technology, titled “For a political economy of Massive Open Online Courses”. The abstract and keywords are below. There are 50 eprints available. Abstract In understanding the changes that are impacting…
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…