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Demise of journalistic independency & access to Uni / HE Media
19 jan Studium Generale Wikileaks
ANS-Online: Wat is de rol van ANS op de universiteit en wat brengt de toekomst?
EPIC 2014
You're about to watch a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson , with music by Aaron McLeran . Click here to watch EPIC 2014! Thanks to all the folks helping us share this with the world: José , Evan , Michael , Ido , and Arno . Also, Robin Good did a transcript in English (ends a little early, though), Coldwind did one in Spanish , Bobby in French , Eneko in Basque , Maciej in Polish , Fabio in Italian , Henry in Brazilian Portuguese , Li in Chinese , and Osman in Turkish . Cool, right?Censuur heerst op universiteiten
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Ravitch: 'A moment of national insanity' corporate school reformers
The Answer Sheet - What ‘Superman’ got wrong, point by point
Protesters set for London march against spending cuts
Academic fury over order to study the big society | Education | The Observer
David Willetts MP, minister for universities and science, regarded as one of the intellectual driving forces behind the 'big society'. Photograph: Graeme Robertson Academics will study the "big society" as a priority, following a deal with the government to secure funding from cuts. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will spend a "significant" amount of its funding on the prime minister's vision for the country, after a government "clarification" of the Haldane principle – a convention that for 90 years has protected the right of academics to decide where research funds should be spent. Under the revised principle, research bodies must work to the government's national objectives, although the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said that ministers will not meddle in individual projects.AAN DE NEDERLANDSE universiteiten is het al een halve eeuw lang heisa, hommeles en trammelant. Steeds opnieuw steekt de onrust de kop op en vooral de laatste tijd zwelt het rumoer weer aan, gezien bijvoorbeeld de kritische boeken en artikelen die recent zijn verschenen, zoals If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?, onder redactie van Chris Lorenz, Topkitsch en slow science van René Boomkens en Bachelor-mastersysteem is uitgelopen op een grote flop van Menno Lievers. Wat is er toch aan de hand?
De universiteiten worden halvarinefabrieken
Liever de Gifbeker: over de universiteiten en de markt « Kritische Studenten Utrecht
André Klukhuhn, directeur Studium Generale, Utrecht, januari 2002Robber barons is a derogatory term applied to wealthy and powerful 19th century American businessmen. By the late 1800's, the term was typically applied to businessmen who used what were considered to be exploitative practices to amass their wealth. These practices included exerting control over national resources, accruing high levels of government influence, paying extremely low wages, squashing competition by acquiring competitors in order to create monopolies and eventually raise prices, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors in a manner which would eventually destroy the company for which the stock was issued and impoverish investors.
Robber baron (industrialist)
Gloria De Piero: 'For many areas of the country there are tremendous success stories about libraries.' Photograph: Fabio De Paola Labour politicians and campaigners have condemned the head of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council for suggesting that public libraries are primarily used by the white middle classes
Library closures: Labour's fury as users are labelled white and middle class | Books | The Observer
The public library is a uniquely American creation. Now we have to fight to keep it public. Is “public” now a dirty word? Fort Worth has stripped the word from its local library. “The word ‘public’ has been removed from the name of the Fort Worth Library.
All Hail the PUBLIC Library
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