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David Webster and Nicola Rivers: ‘We Need to Recognize that Educators Can’t Solve Neoliberalism’

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 3, 2018

Two speakers at the upcoming “Between the discourse of ‘resilience’ and death by committee – Reclaiming collective spaces for academic resistance” forum say they became interested in the state of the neoliberal university because of attempts to bandage wounds that the current system had inflicted.

Ewan Mackenzie: ‘A Sense of Hope for Achieving Broader Change’

By Daniel Nehring | Published: April 26, 2018

In this second of a series of interviews conducted by Social Science Space’s Daniel Nehring, Ewan Mackenzie explains why he joined the May 4 'Reclaiming' event at Newcastle, discusses hallmarks of the modern academic institutions and details some of the events that lead him to believe in both resilience and resistance.

The Soviet System, Neoliberalism and British Universities

By Craig Brandist | Published: September 27, 2016

Craig Brandist compares aspects of British higher education to the old Soviet Union, with a similar tendency towards stagnation and strategies that workers adopt to absorb managerial pressure.

Posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debate | Also tagged Academic Freedom, Soviet Union | Leave a comment

Emotionalisation, Neoliberalism and Academic Freedom in US

By Sam Binkley | Published: September 13, 2016

The boundaries of academic freedom in the US have shifted, argues Sam Binkley. What is at stake now is not only the freedom to think, speak and generate knowledge, but the freedom, even the requirement that one becomes a certain kind of person in order to think and speak in certain kinds of ways.

Posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debate | Also tagged Academic Freedom, Trigger Warnings | 2 Responses

Universities for the Post-Democratic Age

By Daniel Nehring | Published: June 23, 2013

Critical scholarship and intellectual dissent are currently being closed down in favour of a model of academic life that accords scholars a limited role as purveyors of practically useful skills in ‘real-world’ labour markets.

Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge

By Martin Eve | Published: March 25, 2013

Is OA the flip side to privatisation of Higher Education? Is there a way in which OA is a means of justifying the economic inaccessibility of HE by providing a public good?

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Tag: neoliberalism

David Webster and Nicola Rivers: ‘We Need to Recognize that Educators Can’t Solve Neoliberalism’

Ewan Mackenzie: ‘A Sense of Hope for Achieving Broader Change’

The Soviet System, Neoliberalism and British Universities

Emotionalisation, Neoliberalism and Academic Freedom in US

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