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  • U.K. Teachers’ Pay Strike Closes Thousands of Schools
    24 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.K. Teachers’ Pay Strike Closes Thousands of Schools
    By Thomas Penny
    April 24 (Bloomberg) — Thousands of schools across England and Wales are closed today as the U.K.’s biggest teaching union stages a one-day strike over pay, the first in 21 years.
    The National Union of Teachers, which represents almost 200,000 of the 435,000 teachers in England and Wales, called the strike after the government offered a pay rise of 2.45 percent, which the union says is below the rate of inflation. (…)

  • Tradesman show
    11 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tradesman show
    The proposal by Joe Carter of having a new type of universities league table, reminds me of going shopping. I have learnt from such excursions how a tradesman details all the features of the object of desire, in an effort to sell it to the customer. He or she lists, one by one, all the features to let you know that the object of desire is in reality what you really wanted already.
    I have spent many days just looking at and listening to tradesmen/showmen listing all the (…)

  • Round the crown
    2 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The lastest opening of UCU (University and College Union) to more ’extreme views’ will not convince many people.
    UCU has suddenly become concerned with marketization of British education and is calling with a loud voice for an exchange of ideas. Indeed, it appears to be a well-directed drama in which many recognizable voices have suddenly raised concerns on the marketization of British education and its deleterious end as a commodified field which will saturate and decline with the decline (…)

  • Positions at An-Najah National University
    13 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    I am trying to help An-Najah National University find teaching staff and volunteers to fill the chronic short-fall in staff. We are having difficulties finding teaching staff who are willing to live and work in the besieged city of Nablus. The closure regime and checkpoints surrounding Nablus deter many people from coming to work here, and, as you can see from the long list of short-fall subjects below, the University is finding it difficult to attract Faculty members. Yet, many rewarding, (…)

  • Globalisation : n. 1 in the list of evils for contemporary education
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    I continue with another piece to expose corporate control of academia in response to the article by Angela Jancius on "Battling the Neoliberalization of University Life". In this article I highlight how globalisation attracts dangers associated with a lack of genuine educational values, quality control and regulation. I also expose some of the recent moves that new corporations have made in order to gain further control on Academia.
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    It has been widely argued that globalisation is (…)

  • "la sapienza" rome, pope free area
    16 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Although nearly no space has been given to the following news I report it for you benefit:
    "The POPE has been heavily contested with an occupation of the University Senate rooms by autonomous students at "La Sapienza" university in Rome. He will not go and give a speech at the university for the inaugural celebration of the Academic Year".
    This of course is a great victory for academic freedom in Italy.
    The right of reply has been given to the students and they took it and they made (…)

  • Resist, Rebel and Revolt!
    13 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The road is a place of discussion like the entrances to buildings, pub, bars and the rest that concerns the public. It is in the public space that a public debate can have space. It is a place where the public can confront our elite caste of politicians and union leaders, Vice Chancellors and comfortable servant-journalists. All places where the elite caste talk, control and package the news, are monopolized and not accessible by university workers.
    They are safe behind barricades of (…)

  • In defense of academic freedom - a video interview
    10 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The debate on freedom of speech once again sparks debate in and on education. Once more the word freedom is tossed wantonly around as controversial figures take to the podium at Oxford or wherever to voice their perspectives. It is the controversial individuals that attract the most attention and discussion; those whose opinions or reasonings will invariably incite the most opposition or have potential to cause the most harm to more people.
    We talk much less about the speeches of those in (…)

  • Open letter to Fabio Mussi on the paradox of his university reforms
    8 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the 30 December the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" cited that the Decreto Milleproroghe reform proposed by Fabio Mussi, Minister of University and Research and leader of the Sinistra Democratica party in Italy is a sort of Copernican revolution. But what Copernican revolution? This is a carbon copy of what researchers and academics in Britain are trying to get rid of!
    The following is an open letter to Fabio Mussi
    30 December 2007
    Egr. Ministro Mussi,
    I have today read on (…)

  • America’s Homeland Security program for Children, Hitler’s Youth, and Holy Warriors
    25 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    I came across the following frightening story a couple of days ago: “The nation’s first comprehensive high school homeland security program, a three-year course to help kids land jobs in the growing anti-terrorism industry, is in its infancy in Maryland. But it’s recently been attracting the attention of educators and school districts from as far away as California and Florida…
    “Some question whether the program will teach students to be open-minded about the government’s national security (…)