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 ...
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 ...