elia ayoub

ayoub.bsky.social

04 October 2026 15:12

Paper to read: Levidow, L. (2026). How pro-Palestine speech is discursively disciplined in UK universities: a typology of power-structural contexts de/agentializing voices. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/1476... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ronald Hartz

ronaldhartz.bsky.social

07 August 2026 19:04

"The findings reveal a systematic privileging of accountability to external stakeholders over students and staff, of risk management over institutional mission, and of corporate logics over educational principles." New article from @profstevenjones.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Liesbeth Corens

onslies.bsky.social

30 May 2026 20:41

yeah. Seeing her name again in connection with UK universities isn't boding well, is it? Though mildly impressed she managed to do the posh-white-boy thing of failing upwards, incessantly. The Collini piece is fab! Nice to have it in the same week as the Pope's "maybe people are more than money?"

Mike Ratcliffe

mike-rat.bsky.social

13 May 2026 19:30

The Home Office has always been fixated on the ‘brightest and best’ reason - so can’t see that people might want to come here to learn vocational things like accountancy or project management. Too often ‘brightest and best’ just means richest. moremeansbetter.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/n...

QM_UCU

qmucu.bsky.social

13 May 2026 19:28

and in addition to that: OUR MINISTER SHOULD BE THE ONE ADVOCATING FOR THE SECTOR, navigating those 'competing priorities'. What on earth does she think her damn job is??