slackbastard- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #012 w Antti Rautiainen on ‘The Network’, Russia & anti-fascism : April 2, 2020 March 31, 2020On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we speak to Antti Rautiainen, an anarchist living in Finland, about the recent trials and tribulations of anarchists and anti-fascists belonging to a group Russian authorities have dubbed ‘The Network’. (I made reference … Continue reading →
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #012 w Antti Rautiainen on ‘The Network’, Russia & anti-fascism : April 2, 2020 March 31, 2020
- Plashing Vole
- Day 15 in the Big Brother House… April 3, 2020How are you all getting on? The gilded cage that is Vole Towers has not yet descended into the Ballardian anarchy of High-Rise or his under-rated later novel Millennium People, but I like think that JG would have enjoyed a roasted dog's leg on the decking with me, nodding in appreciation at his own foresight.Last week I talked about the British 'co […]
- Day 15 in the Big Brother House… April 3, 2020
Tag Archives: Higher Education
heaven knows
The day starts with Sex Machine. James Brown shouting his chorus to my sleeping children (Get up! get on up/Get up! get on up) and I feel Bootsy’s deep bass begin the snaking energy transfer from the cold airs to … Continue reading
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Tagged Depression, Fatherhood, Higher Education, Love, Mental Health
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the curiosity and the joy
Higher education is usually all about the piece of paper, a parchment with heraldry presented at the end. Institutions want their customers to think that without the parchment there is no education; no scholarship without the overarching curricula endorsed by … Continue reading
we don’t need no stinking badges
International education is big business, no, more than that it is an enormous business. For providers of higher education the international student market is a Golden Hind full of doubloons slowly making its way across the oceans to the (Vice) … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Frantz Fanon, Higher Education, Imperialism, International Education, Universities
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fortune teller
I’ve been reading with interest the accounts of life with HECS debts on Music for Deckchairs post Own Goal, and I thought I’d add my thoughts to the mix. For me I think there are two considerations affecting how I … Continue reading
Posted in The F-Bunker, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged HECS, Higher Education
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faith no more
Some years ago I was a casual academic. I taught classes and marked essays. It was great fun. For a fellow as quiet as me, the enforced opportunity to speak about the stuff that I knew was tremendously rewarding. I … Continue reading
