Oisín Wall on the Anti-University at 49 Rivington Street for our Remembering 1968 feature.
Tag: higher education
Picket Line Perspectives – Part IV: More Than a ‘Lecturers’ Strike’
In the final part of our series on the UCU pensions dispute, two members of university staff reflect on higher education hierarchies, media portrayals of striking workers, and the implications for non-teaching staff members.
Picket Line Perspectives – Part III: ‘Solidarity Forever’
On the final day of a fourteen day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, four historians discuss camaraderie, solidarity and picket line poetry, and consider how to build on the achievements of the past four weeks.
Picket Line Perspectives – Part II: ‘Courage grows from a wound’
As students occupy and vice-chancellors U-turn during a 14-day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, 6 lecturers, professors, and undergraduates share strike stories of exploitation, marketisation, and mobilisation.
The Brexit Divide and Academic Freedom
Kevin Featherstone on academic freedom and the ‘McCarthyite’ character of a Tory MP’s letter asking for the names of university lecturers teaching about Brexit.
Episode 1: Precarious Working Conditions in the University
Six scholars in the early stages of their careers gather to discuss a big problem plaguing higher education in our very first episode.
The AHRC and the ‘Big Society’
Further discussion in the light of the March 2011 Observer story headlined Academic Fury over Order to Study the Big Society, claiming that the Department for Business, Information and Skills had forced the Arts and Humanities Research Council to allocate funds to research on the theme of the ‘Big Society’.
The End of the Public University in England
The Browne Report released last week, and effectively rubber stamped in the savage public sector cuts announced yesterday, was simply the final nail in the coffin. Under the beguiling but misleading title ‘Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education’ it effectively announced that university degrees are no longer considered a public good but a private investment.
