Tag: Higher education
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Neoliberalism’s Plague: The Erosion of Conscience in Education
Neoliberalism is a systemic force of political, economic, and cultural violence, fostering despair while obliterating any vision of justice, solidarity, or care. Keep reading »
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Fighting for a Better Deal and a Better University: Obstacles and Possibilities for Workers in Ontario’s Higher Education Sector
I write as a rank-and-file member of CUPE 3903 at York University, Toronto, who works as a teaching assistant. Our recent round of bargaining and strike action has underscored some … Keep reading »
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As Classes Start, Universities Begin A New Wave Of Repression of Palestine Solidarity
University administrators are unleashing a fresh wave of attacks to discipline the Pro-Palestine movement. These draconian measures show the links between universities and the Zionist interests of the bipartisan regime. … Keep reading »
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Statement on Morning Encampment Raid at York University
[Content Warning: The following statement references police violence and racism, colonialism, imperialism, and anti-Indigenous racism. — YFS] On June 5, 2024, York University students launched the York Popular University for … Keep reading »
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Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism
We live in an age of increased disasters and encroaching fascism. This is a historical moment marked by a systemic attempt by an emerging authoritarianism to disable language and dissent … Keep reading »
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Instead of ‘Civil Discourse’ We Have Civil Terror
Last week, the CBC ran an interview on its flagship program, The Current, with Randy Boyagoda, a professor at the University of Toronto (U of T). Dr Boyagoda is neither … Keep reading »
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University of California Comes to a Standstill as Academic Workers Strike
A militant labor strike by workers at ten UC campuses comes after the state university system failed to offer compensation commensurate to the cost of living in California. Keep reading »
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Financialization, Inequality and the University
The university sector in Britain has been hit by a momentous series of inter-linked strikes since 2018. Led by the University and College Union (UCU), representing some 110,000 staff, the … Keep reading »
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The Workings of Commodified Education
Under the neoliberal accumulation regime, a shift takes place in the internal dynamics of the educational system. Insofar as public education is either privatized or forced to operate along competitive … Keep reading »
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A Falling Rate of Learning? Commodification and Neoliberal Education
Under neoliberal capitalism, the commodification of education has accelerated. Before the establishment of the current accumulation regime, the educational sector was predominantly controlled by an interventionist state, committed to countercyclical … Keep reading »
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Education Under Neoliberal Capitalism
Neoliberalism has radically restructured the sphere of education. Under the present-day social structure of accumulation, education has been reduced to intellectual labour-power. Intellectual labour – on the most general level … Keep reading »
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Laurentian University Insolvency Reflects a Structural Crisis in Ontario’s Neoliberal University System
Ontario governments have reduced their public grants for university operating revenues from a level at about 80% in 1980 to around 50% in 2004, and to only 38% in 2017. Keep reading »