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Posted by: admin on Monday, January 03, 2011 - 03:31 PM
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Universities and the Neo-Liberal Revolution
Bob Brecher
Professor of Moral Philosophy
University of Brighton
Here is John Stuart Mill, the intellectual founding father of “traditional” liberalism:
Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings. … What professional men should carry away with them from an University, is not professional knowledge, but that which should direct the use of their professional knowledge, and bring the light of general culture to illuminate the technicalities of a special pursuit. … And so of all other useful pursuits, mechanical included. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses. (Inaugural Address to the University of St Andrews, 1867)
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Posted by: admin on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 02:49 PM
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Add your name to this statement by emailing m.j.w.povey@leeds.ac.uk
The academy is under unprecedented threat in the United Kingdom.
The Government is cutting support for teaching in Higher Education by 80%, and forcing universities to charge up to £9000 per year. With the median wage in the UK at £22k, the majority of the UK population will be unable to pay some of the highest fees in the world. The effect will be to deny most students access to higher education.
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Posted by: admin on Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 11:49 AM
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See you at the rally in London on Saturday October 9th. More details here: http://scienceisvital.org.uk/attend-the-demo/
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Posted by: admin on Monday, May 03, 2010 - 03:30 PM
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SHORT COURSE:
This is a course for people who are experts in their field, like professors, lecturers, postgraduates, researchers, NGO staff, hospital staff and civil servants. Some will be very well qualified academically, but we are also open to people with few qualifications but real technical expertise. Each course will have a mixture of experts in different fields, so the other delegates in the workshop will already be your general audience.This course will teach you how to write clearly, but not to dumb down. We want to hold onto ambiguity, contradiction and complexity. Audiences and movements need to understand these, or they will end up even more confused. So we want to explain the complexity in simple ways. In essence, the principle is ‘the harder the ideas, the shorter the words’.
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Posted by: Malcolm Povey on Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 04:54 PM
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What did Karl Marx contribute to our understanding of our environment?
The answer, suggests this pamphlet, is a great deal despite being largely overlooked. Marx condemned capitalism not just for its exploitation of men and women but for producing a dangerous 'metabolic rift' between humans and nature.
Marx's approach offers vital insights to all those who believe tinkering with the present set-up of society won't stave of the treat of devestating climate change.
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Posted by: Malcolm Povey on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 10:49 AM
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Minutes of First Meeting of Green Jobs Commission, 13 June 2009
Present: Sian Jones (CCC-tu group, chair), Chris Baugh (PCS), Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford Uni), Manuel Cortes (TSSA), Tim Baster (COIN), Jonathan Neale (CCC), Phil Thornhill (CCC), Fergus Nicol (London Met), Derek Wall (Goldsmiths), Tony Kearns (CWU), Sean Geoghegan (RMT), Gareth Dale (Brunel Uni and CCC-tu; taking minutes).
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Posted by: admin on Friday, January 16, 2009 - 07:55 PM
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As scientists and members of universities, we express our utmost concern and condemnation of the current Israeli attacks in Gaza strip. This is a clear violation of international law, specifically the Fourth Geneva Convention "relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War" (1949).
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Posted by: admin on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 12:05 PM
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23% of all R&D in the UK by expenditure was carried out in the Higher Education Sector in 2002; there is every reason to think that this proportion is increasing. The HE sector has a high concentration of scientists, either members of the UCU or potential members of the UCU and the UCU represents scientists in Medical Research Council institutes. Science is a core activity in Higher Education. Science is central to our society and is a matter of daily debate and interest. An understanding of the role of science in Higher Education is obviously important to the UCU and hence the Education Committee of the UCU has commissioned this work.
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