#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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.…
There is a symposium being hosted by Coventry University UCU, on Friday 15 September 2015. The symposium is focused on the following two questions. Has the idea of Higher Education as a social good been replaced by the idea of…
I’m presenting at the Bishop Grosseteste University learning and teaching conference on Monday 22 June. There is a separate blog-post on my topic of dismantling the curriculum in higher education here. The abstract and some references are linked here. The slides for my…
I’m speaking at the Educational Innovation in Economics and Business (EdinEB) conference next Wednesday (3 June), in Brighton. The conference is focused on the interplay between theory and practice, with the focus on “Critically questioning educational innovation in economics and business: Human…
I’m presenting at the Bishop Grosseteste University learning and teaching conference on Monday 22 June. There is a fuller blog-post on my topic of dismantling the curriculum in higher education here. Abstract As a response to on-going economic crisis and the…
I’m speaking at the Educational Innovation in Economics and Business (EdinEB) conference on 3 June, in Brighton. The conference is focused on the interplay between theory and practice, with the focus on “Critically questioning educational innovation in economics and business:…
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…