The only silver lining has been the response of students: Several large demonstrations ending in disturbances (Duchess of Cornwall poked with a stick!), a string of occupations of buildings in universities up and down the country and the involvement of school and further education students - and lots of support frfom staff. Having been on a number of these marches and to our local occupation, what is striking is that it is not just the usual suspects but a lot of very angry young people getting involved in protest for the first time. That bodes well for the coming year as I doubt they will just go away now the fees bill has gone through.
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The depth of the depravity described in this review is shocking. Britain was once the paragon of free universal public service, and has now been dragged down to a level even worse than Oz or the USA. How far can this process go? In his PhD thesis in 1968, James Coleman suggested that although every citizen was entitled to a vote, people ought to be allowed to sell their vote on the market, much like the "education voucher" of which Milton Friedman was an early advocate.The irony is that the elimination of the ethos of free, universal education as a public good, is offered in diect response to the utter failure of the market to regulate financial investment. Why on Earth do these people think the market will do a better job of regulating learning?Andy mike cole wrote:For more of the story check out the most recent NY Review of booksor get an English colleague to forward a summary document. Before long itsgoing to be in a convenience store near you, or perhaps a Walmart. mike ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frank Kessel <kesfam@pdq.net> Date: Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:18 PM Subject: Value(s) and Higher Education ------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Andy Blunden* Joint Editor MCA: http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/Journal/ Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857 MIA: http://www.marxists.org __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.eduhttp://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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