#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
In discussing academic labour, Chomsky made the interesting point that: The university is probably the social institution in our society that comes closest to democratic worker control. Within a department, for example, it’s pretty normal for at least the tenured…
Through our work on the Social Science Centre, Joss Winn and I have been approached to produce a book which documents and critically analyses ‘alternative higher education’ projects in terms of their being critical responses to ‘intellectual leadership’ in mainstream…
ONE. Academics and socially necessary labour time. In the University, abstract time dominates: the 50-minute hour; the four-week turnaround for feedback on work; being always-on through tethered technologies; the production of journal articles and books; the production and circulation of…
ONE. This is an age of enclosure; of mine and not yours; of indentured study; of an entrepreneurial life beholden to capitalist work; of a subservience to exchange value; of alienation in the face of money. In the face of…
ONE. Transnational activist networks for privatisation Stephen J. Ball and Deborah Youdell, Hidden Privatisation in Public Education. Global privatisation tendencies reflect both an orchestrated escalation on the part of dominant governments, international organisations and private companies and an unintended international…
Tomorrow DMU’s UCU branch is hosting a workshop/teach-in for students and staff about the higher education industrial action. The workshop will take place between 10.40 and 12.15 in St Andrew’s Community Hall, Gateway Street. The entrance is on Gateway Street.…
With Jonathan Payne at DMU I’m leading a strand of DMU’s 2015 Policy Commission on young people and employment. We met for the first time today to outline the work that we might do together with eight undergraduate and postgraduate…
ONE. Autonomy for whom? Autonomy from what? William I. Robinson has argued that: activists and scholars have tended to underestimate the systemic nature of the changes involved in globalisation, which is redefining all the fundamental reference points of human society…
ONE. The State will not save the public University The idea of neoliberalism as a globalising, disciplinary discourse is especially important in Stephen J. Ball’s work on Global Education Inc.. Ball argued that the State has a critical activist role…
I’ve just submitted this for the Higher Education Academy’s 2014 conference. It’s not contentious to me. But let’s see if it gets accepted… Short abstract: The University is broken. The game is up. It is conditioned by neoliberal politics through…