by Becca Bashford | Mar 31, 2022 | Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Government, In the News, Marketisation, News round-up, Opinion, Protest, UCU, Ukraine, Uncategorized
British universities are currently grappling with the knock on effects of the war in Ukraine, including sanctions against Russia affecting climate science and space research, supporting education programmes for Ukrainian refugees, and offering mental health and...
by Becca Bashford | Mar 23, 2022 | Book review, Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Further education, Government, Opinion, UCU, Uncategorized
Review by Patrick Ainley, former professor of training and education at the University of Greenwich and regular contributor to the Post-16 Educator. The argument in this book is that mass higher education, for all its multiple and irreversible achievements, is...
by Becca Bashford | Feb 16, 2022 | Book review, CDBU Updates, Guest blog, Opinion, Uncategorized
Review by Professor Julian Preece Ronald J. Daniels, the lead author of this original and much-needed book, has been President of Johns Hopkins since 2007. He was previously head of the Law School at Toronto, then Provost at Pennsylvania. Universities have not only...
by Becca Bashford | Jan 31, 2022 | Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Government, In the News, Marketisation, News round-up, Opinion, Pensions, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, UCU, Uncategorized, Universities UK
CDBU UPDATES Last month, the CDBU Executive Committee met to discuss some new ideas for 2022. We are very pleased to announce that we will now be offering a fee to those who write for our blog! We are particularly keen to offer this fee to help support students and...
by Becca Bashford | Jan 11, 2022 | Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Humanities, In the News, Marketisation, Opinion, Uncategorized
Words by Dr Alexis Artaud de La Ferrière, Lecturer in Sociology at Royal Holloway. In what is called the Humanity Formula of his Categorical Imperative, Immanuel Kant states that we should never act in such a way that we treat humanity as a means only; but instead...
by Becca Bashford | Dec 9, 2021 | CDBU Updates, Guest blog, Humanities, Marketisation, Opinion, Uncategorized
Words by Ronald Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, University College London. Can we really think about higher education? To what extent are there spaces in universities for collective thinking about higher education? And to the extent...
