An experiment in free, co-operative higher education

Social Science Centre, Lincoln ~ RP 182 (Nov/Dec 2013) ~ News

News An experiment in free, co-operative higher educationThe Social Science Centre (SSC) organizes free higher education in Lincoln and is run by its members. The SSC is a co-operative and was formally constituted in May 2011 with help from the local Co-operative Development Agency. There is no fee for learning or teaching, but most members […]

Conditions of the university

Martin McQuillan ~ RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) ~ Review

Reviews Conditions of the universityAndrew McGettigan, The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Education, Pluto Press, London, 2013. 232 pp., £54.00 hb., £15.00 pb., 978 0 74533 294 9 hb., 978 0 74533 293 2 pb. In an interview with Giovanna Borradori given after 9/11, Jacques Derrida said: ‘I am incapable of […]

Dossier On Universities

Dossier: Universities

Vienna Collective, The Middlesex Occupiers and Matthew Charles ~ RP 162 (Jul/Aug 2010), pp. 38–47 ~ Article

The immediate causes of the current protests by students, lecturers and academic researchers in Europe are contingent; they are directed at individual educational institutions or administrators, and the demands they make are capable of being met over the short term.* But on a second level, one that cannot be separated from the immediate events, protestors […]