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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsGoldsmiths strike: Why we’re fighting the marketisation of higher education
In recent weeks, many UK universities have seen staff walkouts in protest against pension cuts, deteriorating...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCulture wars: It’s the Right that is trying to cancel free speech
While the powerful try to silence those who speak back to them, working-class cultures all over the world are...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsBritish universities slammed for taking £90m from oil companies in four years
Exclusive: Campaigners condemn ‘scandalous’ funding, saying it is ‘a blemish on the reputations of the UK’s leading...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionUK universities’ dangerous reliance on China is being driven by marketisation
Institutions are being forced to risk academic freedom under current funding model.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHigher education should be about love and justice
An edited speech by openDemocracy co-founder Anthony Barnett to graduating Goldsmiths students, and accepting his...
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Published in: TransformationAre eco-versities the future for higher education?
Transforming learning into a process of liberation sounds great, but what does it mean in practice?
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Published in: TransformationCan universities still provide a transformative experience?
At least for the purposes of surveillance and control, the possibility of being politically awakened by higher...
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Published in: TransformationRe-imagining higher education
Learning takes place in the heart, the hands and the home, not just in the head. What does that mean for the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy we should all be alarmed about our new university 'businesses' and their enforcers
As has become clear, the universities are colluding with police and even the unions to clamp down on student protest...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn praise of the 'economically illiterate' academic
University staff are now being drilled to see their work as part of a great financial machine to generate revenue,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'Fair pay' at universities, as long as you're full time
'Fractional Staff' appear to be severely underpaid and neither the universities nor even the unions seem at all...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy the universities strikes are about more than just a ‘measly’ pay offer
It's not just the money, it's the direction our marketised universities are taking - enormous rewards at the top...
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