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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.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest
Read 'Fight Back! A reader on the winter of protest' here, and get all the latest information. The book is FREE to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe dangers of kettling: a retired London policeman speaks out
Brian Woollard, a former officer in London's Metropolitan Police, expresses his alarm at the 'kettling' of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe occupation of spaceSometimes, the self-referential, apolitical worlds of art and architecture intersect with politics in unexpected...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe higher education debate exposes the need for a new approach to social organisation, large and small
While we must respect the organic nature of our institutions, we must also accept them as social constructs. We need...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKImage of the Year: the Royals photo symbolises the productive disorder of the student protests
The shocked faces of Camilla and Prince Charles as they are attacked by a group of student demonstrators is now an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs there a conservative in the House? In the clash over the UK's universities no party defends their historic calling
The higher education debate has failed to take account of the conservative perspective. The loud dispute over the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe proposed cap on international students is discriminatory and a danger to British education
The government has announced that its cap on migrant workers coming into Britain from outside the EU cannot be met...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKettling - an attack on the right to protestThe British police have developed a controlling method of containing demonstrators in addition to their usual...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat next for the UK's student movement?The volcanic eruption of student anger and militancy in Britain over the last few months has blown the political...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Con-Dem Christmas Carol
The ’12 Cuts of Christmas’, sung by student protesters on the tuition fee demonstration at Parliament Square, summed...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPostmodernism in the Streets: the tactics of protest are changing
Three things were revealed by the recent wave of nationwide student protest. Firstly, the demonstrations represent a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe military response to direct action, General Kitson's manual
In 1971 a counter-insurgency manual set out an operational response to non-violent direct action protest movements...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFacts on fees and the fallacies of ‘fairness’
What is the real nature of the government's legislation on higher education; what will be the consequences; and what...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOn London's Oxford Street with UKuncutA friendly movement of flash protests against corporate tax avoidance when much needed public support is being cut...
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