against the HE Green Paper
Turn the light out say goodnight, no thinking for a little while Let’s not try to figure out everything at once It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky We’re half awake in a fake empire The…
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notes on metricide
I read these pieces as I listened to The Smiths, Strangeways Here We Come. it seems that the panopticon is about to be extended across the whole academic hierarchy with the introduction of ‘faculty dashboards’. These are tools which allow…
HE Green Paper and related stuff
This is a collection of stuff related to the Green paper, grouped into: Political economics; Sector responses; HE marketisation; Teaching excellence; Learning gain; HE governance; Quality Assurance/regulation; and Research. It is not exhaustive and I probably won’t add to it. NOTE:…
against teaching intensity
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…
The University and the Secular Crisis
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…
Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies
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,…
On the Open Library of Humanities
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…
learning gain and kettling academic labour
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths Banquo, Act 1, Scene III, Macbeth. “Kettling is a police tactic to control crowds where officers surround a group of people on all sides. In…
notes on saying “no” to the TEF
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…
In solidarity with students: so what more might academics do?
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…