Some themes and some music
This year I have written increasingly about the following issues. The mechanisms through which higher education as a previously socialised or social good has been marketised, in order that value can be...
View ArticleMaking the Cloud work for you: institutional risk and governance
On Thursday I am presenting at BETT13 on “Making the Cloud work for you”, with a subtitle of “institutional risk and governance”. My presentation is here: http://slidesha.re/11OHwoK These are my notes...
View ArticleOn the secular crisis and a qualitative idea of the University
I was struck over the weekend by a friend’s statement that “I struggle to translate your critiques into the various education/technology contexts of the global South”. This is an issue that generally...
View ArticleTalk: The challenges of resilient learning and the production of a university...
On Thursday 20th June, I’m keynoting the University of the West of Scotland Learning and Teaching Conference. My talk is entitled: The challenges of resilient learning and the production of a...
View ArticleSome notes on environmental crisis and the internationalisation of higher...
ONE. Educational truth: there is no alternative to economic growth David Willetts’ speaking at the UK Quality Assurance Agency, We need to talk about Quality: MOOCs: when Goldman Sachs are investing...
View ArticleOn the domination of time and the liberation of a pedagogical alliance
ONE. Academics and socially necessary labour time. In the University, abstract time dominates: the 50-minute hour; the four-week turnaround for feedback on work; being always-on through tethered...
View Articleon academic labour and performance anxiety
ONE. The bleeding of our souls. There is no escape from the living death of capitalist work (Dinerstein and Neary). This leads Cederström and Fleming to argue that our whole existence bleeds our...
View Articlehigher education and the triple crunch
I’m presenting at the University of Plymouth Pedagogic Research conference on Wednesday, about higher education and the triple crunch. There are some notes on the University and the secular crisis...
View Articlenotes on the reserve army of academic labour
In his mid-40s, John had worked as a casual university tutor since finishing his PhD in philosophy 15 years ago. Passed over a few times for tenured jobs, he was a long-term member of the academic...
View ArticleNotes on mental health in the age of Covid-19
“What if things are going to be absolutely fine?” Me to myself, sometime towards the end of therapy, after years of asking “are we okay?” Sticker on street furniture near the Pompidou Centre. It took...
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