25 May 2011

Event: The Crisis of the University and the Educational Significance of the Fees: Reducing the 'Deficit' or Fashioning Subservient Human Beings?

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Friday 27 May 2011, University of Salford "Man is no longer man confined but man in debt. One thing, it's true, hasn't changed ...
05 May 2011

Brainpower for Sale?

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Roger Rees of the Open University's faculty of Social Sciences reviews The Global Auction , a new book on the marketisation of higher ed...
26 April 2011

On Bullshit, the Big Society and Other Bollocks

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By Gordon Finlayson “One of the most salient features of our culture” observed the Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt “is that there is...
01 April 2011

Burying the Haldane Principle

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Andrew Chitty argues that The Coalition Government has not only traduced the Haldane Principle, but has now more or less openly politicized ...
18 January 2011

Universities and the Neo-Liberal Revolution

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By Bob Brecher Here is John Stuart Mill, the intellectual founding father of “traditional” liberalism: Universities are not intended to t...
04 December 2010

Discussion of the Current (Crisis?) Situation of HE in the UK

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You can find an intelligent overview and analysis here: http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/digest-from-subtext-on-the-uk-situation
02 December 2010

Message from Professor Simon Jarvis

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Dear friends and colleagues, I attach a link to an interview which I gave recently on local radio, in case, like me, you wish to oppose the ...
21 November 2010

The End of the Public University in England

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By James Vernon I graduated from the University of Manchester in 1987 with no debt. I paid no fees and received a maintenance grant to earn ...

Valuing the Humanities

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A panel discussion organised by the British Philosophical Association with: Martha Nussbaum (Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor o...

'The Two Cultures' Fifty Years On

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As part of the event, WHY HUMANITIES? Onora O'Neill gave the following talk on 4 November 2010, in Senate House, London. You can find O...