While some Kent students continued their sit-ins over the holiday break and others are planning further demonstrations to protest the proposed tuition fee rises, the government decided that English universities are to face a 6% cut to their teaching budgets… Read More ›
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The antagonistic university? A conversation on cuts, conviviality and capitalism.
Anja: Let me begin by posing three questions. Firstly, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that modes of labour are appropriating cognitive, communicational and affective skills. What does this mean to you for the political potential of academic and collaborative work? Secondly,… Read More ›
Humanities and Social Sciences Matter!
si SUPPORTS THIS INITIATIVE: Humanities and Social Sciences Matter Campaign for the Humanities and Social Sciences in UK Universities: “Without a serious commitment to the Humanities and Social Sciences, our society will lack a serious commitment to democracy at home… Read More ›
“We are no longer the post-ideological generation; we are now the generation at the heart of the resistance”
On 10th November 2010 an estimated 55,000 people marched in London against UK government plans to raise higher education tuition fees from £3200 to £9000 per student per year, while simultaneously cutting all public funding for social sciences, arts and… Read More ›
Cuts, Fees, and Solidarity: Why the Telegraph’s Janet Daley was wrong to say the demonstration was “self-serving”
The morning after the demonstration in London against education cuts the Today programme on BBC Radio Four carried an interview with two newspaper columnists – John Harris of The Guardian, and Janet Daley of The Daily Telegraph. A question posed… Read More ›
The significance of the ‘spending review’ and the true choice we will make now, whether we want it or not
What is at stake in the British government’s spending review announced some weeks ago, is not a question of so-called ‘cuts’, how massive they will be and whom will be most affected; that is a merely technical problem which takes… Read More ›
From students to customers – neoliberalism and the UK teaching landscape
It is official: Sociology is a ‘low-cost’, ‘non-priority’ discipline, the government says. It is now clear that the cuts on higher education included in the Comprehensive Spending Review are going to hit harder the disciplines that have been put under… Read More ›
‘The End of the Public University in England’
I graduated from the University of Manchester in 1987 with no debt. I paid no fees and received a maintenance grant to earn a degree in Politics and Modern History. If my seventeen year old son were to follow in… Read More ›
Call for Contributions: Social Research in an Age of Austerity
A new coalition government pledges an unparalleled age of fiscal austerity and a new universities minister promises radical ‘reform’ of higher education: what does the future hold for the British university in an age of fiscal austerity? What is this… Read More ›