Tag: Higher education
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Subjects of the New Corporate University: The Sabotage of Laurentian University
At about 10:28 p.m. on Sunday May 3rd, the other shoe dropped. Insolvency Court Justice Geoffrey B. Morawetz gave Laurentian University’s president what he had wished for: a ruling in … Keep reading »
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Shock Therapy: Public Funding and the Crisis at Laurentian University
Here we go again. A major crisis. Governments cutting taxes. Bailouts in the billions for banks and corporations. And suddenly public services – including universities like Laurentian – are on … Keep reading »
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Precarity U
Members of United Steel Workers (USW, Local 1998) tell their stories about the reality, good and bad, of working on casual contracts. Watch video »
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The Not So Negative Dialectics of Post-Secondary Education
“Well, we busted out of class, had to get away from those fools. We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school.” — Bruce Springsteen … Keep reading »
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Ghoulish EdTech Innovations
We speak with Tanner Mirrlees about the dark and underdiscussed world of education technology and the information communication technology (ICT) industry. Listen to audio »
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What Questions Must Students Ask Their Educators, and Why?
Given the enormous problems that humanity is facing, it is reasonable to expect to see a future society that is radically different from, and superior to, the current one, that … Keep reading »
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Online Education and the Struggle over Disposable Time
During COVID-19 times, the ‘social distancing’ catchphrase has invaded every aspect of our lives. Public space has been fragmented into individualized, quarantined units, transforming social relations into aggregates of their … Keep reading »
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The Far Right, Racism, and the Universities
Memories of Western, Kenneth Hilborn, and the Politics of Opposition Marx wrote presciently in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) that “The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like … Keep reading »
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The Neoliberal University
Opposition grows to performance-based funding model for post-secondary education in Ontario Announced in the Ontario Budget, the Ford government’s reckless new market-based approach to funding postsecondary education will fundamentally compromise the … Keep reading »
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Fordism and Ontario Universities: College “For the People” Who Can Pay
In 2011, The Quebec Liberal government of Jean Charest decided to hike post-secondary school tuition fees by 75 per cent over a five-year period. This move mobilized students across Quebec … Keep reading »
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Austerity and University Education w/ Alan Sears and Jessica Ireland
Episode 1: University education in Canada is becoming increasingly necessary and, at the same time, increasingly difficult to access. Listen to audio »
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A New Strategy for Higher Education
In the British Labour Party’s 2017 election manifesto, the pledges to abolish university tuition fees and reintroduce maintenance grants were widely seen as vote winners, but that was the extent … Keep reading »