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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Category "Issue 5"
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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WHY ONLINE PRIVACY IS NOT DEAD: NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Paola Tubaro, University of Greenwich The "end of privacy" is a recurring theme in current political and scientific debates about the [...]
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MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT CELEBRITY
Timothy Clarke, Pojanath Bhatanacharoen and David Greatbatch, University of Durham In 1995 Business Week published an exposé into an operation to [...]
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MARK DUGGAN AND BRITAIN’S POST-COLONIAL POLITICS OF DEATH
Malcolm James, City University, London About two years ago, I was set to jump through one of the many hoops that [...]
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