Education targets become ends in themselves, argues Michael Copestake The pernicious and self-defeating influence of targets, league tables and over-examination in schools has thrust the education system once again into the media spotlight. This time outside its regular place in the annual news cycle, which, as residents of Britain at least will know, usually follows the ...
What did the classical Marxists actually say on the subject of education? James Tansey has been finding out, and draws some lessons for communist work today. In February 1865, at the age of 24, Paul Lafargue first met Karl Marx in a visit to report on the progress of the International Workingmen’s Association in France. Marx ...
Commodification is wrecking higher education, argues Yassamine Mather. First printed in the Weekly Worker and republished here for comrades' interest. In October 2010 Lord Browne published his independent review into higher education funding and student finance in England - the latest in a long list of such proposals since 1979. It recommended changes to ...
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On Thursday May 7 Communist Students were up at the crack of dawn to attend the picket lines at London Metropolitan University, showing our support for the strike action against outrageous cuts proposals following severe mismanagement and bureaucracy. The pickets were quite well attended and there was a positive mood amongst the strikers. Students largely ...
The text below is taken from the website Marxist.com: Universities have been occupied in Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Milan, Rome, Naples, Pisa, Lecce, Padua, Turin, etc. In Milan, Palermo, Sassari and Cagliari normal lessons have been suspended and replaced by activities aimed at strengthening the mobilisation and discussing the details of the education counter-reform presently going through ...
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How should communists approach campus work? In the first place by understanding the contradictory class position of students, argues Mike Macnair in the Weekly Worker
All students should read Bertell Ollman’s How to take an exam and remake the world (Black Rose Books), says Benjamin Edgar Klein I first opened this book last summer term. Faced with the daunting prospect of writing about 15,000 words and taking a seemingly endless stream of exams, I found Bertell Ollman not only provided some ...
James Turley reviews Alex Callinico's Universities in a neoliberal world (Bookmarks, 2006, pp41, £2) Within the small pond of the British left, Alex Callinicos is something of a big fish: undoubtedly the most prolific and prodigious theorist in ...