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Published in: openDemocracyUKFred Halliday was right: The LSE, Gaddafi money and what is missing from the Woolf Report
Fred Halliday has been vindicated in his long battle with the LSE over taking Gaddafi money. But the underlying...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKettled Youth: the emergence of a new politics in Britain
A new polemic pamphlet reflects on the emergence of a new politics in Britain, through the lens of the police tactic...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHas England's higher education come to this: “I was personally punched and thrown down the stairs by officers.”
The London police defended the Minister of Higher Education by showing that even universities are to be subject to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNew College disaster and the challenge of A.C. Grayling
In a bold new initiative, philosopher-proprietor A.C. Grayling has launched a for-profit university amidst a storm...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNew College for the Humanities: Emperor's New Clothes
A team of celebrity academics, led by philosopher AC Grayling, are launching a new British private university,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Radical Manifesto for Higher Education
Our universities are under attack, with the Coalition determined to throw them to the mercy of the market. Support...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMP attacks LSE professor over feminist political theory course
During a Commons debate on Human Trafficking, Denis MacShane MP accused professor Anne Phillips of filling the minds...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA New World in the Shell of the Old: prefigurative politics, direct action, education
Online networks are increasingly seen as of huge importance for how social movements organise - be it in Wisconsin,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA hundred days of occupation: the "Free Hetherington" at Glasgow University
On February 1st, a building owned by Glasgow University was occupied in protest against attempts to model the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe student 'Fight Back' is still going strong
Since the release of Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest in February, much has occurred in the British...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLondon Metropolitan University: Crimes against Humanities
The university with the UK's highest proportion of poorer students is being assaulted by its own administration. All...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBlack Bloc: aesthetics won't beat the cuts
Luke Cooper responds to Jonathan Moses' article on the Black Bloc. He argues that the group's "aesthetic wars" can...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDo the Arts and Humanities matter? Answers from across Britain's universities
At a Cambridge conference on the Higher Education reforms, leading researchers from universities across the UK were...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOn the Alternative Vote, who speaks for history?
After a provocative letter telling Times readers that 'history teaches us to vote no to AV', a response was...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMemorandum to the London School of Economics Council warning it not to accept a grant from the Qaddafi Foundation
Fred Halliday (1946-2010), openDemocracy author and Director-Designate of the LSE Middle East Centre, 2006-2008, did...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA social democracy of the people? A review of Fight Back!
A review of Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest, published by OurKingdom on February 15 and free to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA way forward for the Humanities?
The Coalition’s plans for higher education rest upon an anachronistic view of learning, which separates the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn a world where education is a commodity, why not subcontract your PhD?
In trading off plagiarism, essay-writing companies undermine basic goods in education, beginning with critical,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Oxford Debate on Higher Education
The complete Oxford Debate on Higher Education, all six articles as featured on openDemocracy.net OurKingdom.
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job