Alexander Smith, University of Warwick As 2013 drew to a close, two cases of murder went before the courts. One case, [...]
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Defending Higher Education in the Age of Neoliberal Savagery
Henry Giroux, McMaster University Across the globe, the forces of predatory capitalism are on the march dismantling the historically guaranteed social [...]
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Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Kieran Connell and Matthew Hilton, University of Birmingham On Monday 10 February, Stuart Hall, one of this country’s few public intellectuals, [...]
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FOCUS: MANAGERIALISM, DEMOCRACY AND THE NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENGLISH HIGHER EDUCATION
Andrew McGettigan, Independent Researcher Early in January, Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, provided her now annual defence of [...]
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VIEWPOINT: THE ASSAULT ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge The dismantling of the public university in England and putting in its place a fully neoliberal, [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: FURTHER EDUCATION – FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN?
Mahmoona Shah, FE College Teacher Further education policy has historically been a confused and contradictory patchwork of different initiatives and programmes. [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: WHITHER FEES AND LOANS?
John Holmwood, University of Nottingham English higher education policy never ceases to surprise. First, the sector had to absorb the fact [...]
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RECONNECTING AND RE–PURPOSING THE CIVIC PURPOSE OF UNIVERSITIES
Mary Stuart, University of Lincoln One theme in any story about higher education has dominated the headlines since the 1990s – [...]
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FROM ACADEMIC FREEDOM TO ACADEMIC CAPITALISM
Diane Reay, University of Cambridge For the first decade of the 2000s I was a member of FAAB - Feminists against [...]
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THE CULTURE WARS OVER ENGLISH SCHOOLS
Nick Stevenson, University of Nottingham When progressive rock band Pink Floyd released their song ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ in 1979 [...]
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