The Process of Financialisation in Higher Education
Scepsi have published the text of my lecture in Barcelona from before Christmas. It is an overview of my work in 2011 and somewhat lacking in detail as a result of its oral delivery. I’ve revised my...
View ArticleFalse Accounting? – report now out
My report for Intergenerational Foundation is now out. FInd it Here. And please also look at the Campaign around getting more protection for borrowers (with petition).
View ArticleArticles on University Financing – now available
Research Fortnight have now made available as pdfs the complete set of articles I wrote for them last year on university financing. The newly available articles include: a short history of bond issues...
View ArticlePrivatisation of HE – new article for Radical Philosophy
The new issue of Radical Philosophy includes a comment piece by me on privatisation in English higher education. It distinguishes seven kinds of privatisation in this context articulates the need for a...
View ArticlePearson Blue Skies 2012 – Academics
I have contributed to the new edition of Pearson Blue Skies – out today. My article and an accompanying video are available here. The full publication can be downloaded here. I argue that Pearson and...
View Article‘Does it matter who owns our universities?’
Another Education is Possible – new issue. It includes an article by me on the corporate form of universities and the issues for governance. A pdf of the cover and contents can be found here: Another...
View Article‘We are not Rats’
I am delighted to be interviewed in the launch issue of We are not Rats - Scotland’s Students’ Left Review. So far, I’ve managed to read the editorial and the contributions from Ferdinand von...
View ArticleUniversity of PE (redux)
I have returned to the theme of University of Law Limited in a comment piece for The Guardian. It’s in Thursday’s print edition or here online. Times Higher Education are covering the same story this...
View ArticleInterview with Forsker Forum (Denmark)
The latest issue of the Danish higher education publication, Forsker Forum (Researcher Forum) has four pages on England including an article on the launch of Council for the Defence of British...
View ArticleArticle for Red Pepper now online
Degrees of Profit at London Metropolitan University Editing of the article has slightly confused the relationship between ‘shared services’ and equity investment. The subsidiary company in a shared...
View ArticleMassive Open Online Courses
I am at the early phase of some new research on moocs. The first publications have just appeared: An article in today’s Guardian on where the returns of investment may be given the problems around...
View ArticleNew Radical Philosophy issue
The latest issue of Radical Philosophy has a lot to recommend it for those interested in Higher Education: two comment pieces on open access and open source from John Holmwood and Christopher Newfield...
View ArticleGovernance & the political economy of English HE
Thew new issue of Discover Society has an overview from me on the new political economy of English Higher Education and the challenges for democratic governance. Article here Tagged: bond issuance,...
View ArticleRecent overviews of English HE
Three recent overviews of English HE that may help new readers or those who want updates on what has happened since The Great University Gamble was published a year ago. For the Australian publication,...
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