“Move along folks, you’re blocking a cash point.” This pithy synopsis of the neoliberal logic driving the policing of student protest was delivered unironically by one of London Met’s Finest to the milling crowd at a recent demonstration at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, whose inmates gazed down apprehensively from their glass cubicles… [Read more…]
November 16, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
And then there were four. It is great to have Eliza Jane Darling join us at ZA, and she has started with her first essay dealing with the UK budget cuts, neoliberalism, the political economy of academia, and the transformation of higher education in Britain. As the days pass changes will be made to the… [Read more…]
November 14, 2010 by Eliza Jane Darling
The evangelical neoliberalism which erupted in the US House of Representatives in 2008 and spread like the mange to the UK House of Commons is coming soon to an English university near you. The free market rapture comes courtesy of a man so dreadfully incompetent he couldn’t even be trusted to run BP: Edmund John… [Read more…]
June 3, 2010 by John Stanton
NOTE: this is an update on a previous report–”HTS’ MAP HT Failure: People Not Being Paid, MAP HT Cost Overrruns“–and should be read in conjunction with that. “These people will scrimp to save dimes when it comes to actually paying employees – but Steve Fondacaro and Montgomery McFate can blow a fortune in Paris attending some software… [Read more…]
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January 16, 2011 by Eliza Jane Darling
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