Geopolitics
Ussam Makdisi – Overwriting Palestine
On ‘the Palestine exception’ in western universities. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Higher Education
Economics
Simon Grassmann: The Neoliberal Model Is Destroying Innovation in Science
Over the past few decades, scientists have been making fewer and fewer innovative breakthroughs. The blame lies with academia’s increasingly competitive, metrics-driven model, which discourages creativity and risk-taking. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Guy Standing: Can Labour de-commodify Higher Education? It has a minor problem
Tony Blair’s son, Euan, is spearheading a new phase in the commodification of Higher Education in the UK. Guy Standing is a labour economist and professorial research associate at SOAS. Cross-posted from the Progressive Economy […]