All-Administrative University
The traditional role of a university as a place of ideas and academic freedom needs defending. by Justin Podur via…
“This is the education revolution”: The United Opt Out Movement attacks the Achilles Heel of corporate education
The quality of public education is progressively more threatened in the United States as the free market right wing corporations…
De blinde vlek van het neoliberale onderwijsbeleid
Onderwijs wordt steeds meer een richtingenstrijd. Met in het ene kamp bestuurskundigen en neoliberale economen en in het andere kamp…
Dysfunctional PhDs in a dysfunctional university
If one’s experience as a PhD student is dominated by hierarchy, perhaps that also says something about the changes occurring…
Academic assessment gone mad
Has accountability to stakeholders got out of hand? Steven Ward imagines an Orwellian world of over-assessment by Steven Ward (professor…
What’s At Stake In Privatizing Education
What Is At Stake? Nothing short of genuine education itself is at stake. What particularly vitiates the learning process is…
Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience
The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience…
The university crumbles under neoliberal contradictions
Until the neoliberal university collapses under its own dead weight, we need to look to free universities to remind ourselves…
A Machiavellian Guide to Destroying Public Universities in 12 Easy Steps
“In order to destroy public universities, it is important to:” by Steven Ward via chronicle.com As a general rule those…
Call out for Global Wave of Action for Free Education November 17th – 23rd 2013
The International Student Movement published the following call on their website: “We are calling for a Global Wave of Action…