Articles / Resources

Media reports on the Campaign:

• University of York academics sign reforms protest, The Press, 5th Nov 2011
• UK Student-Led Demo Against University Fees And Austerity Cuts – OpEd, Eurasia Review News and Analysis, 5th Nov 2011

Articles:

• Stuart Parkinson, 16 Dec 2011 Science and the corporate university in Britain Open Democracy
• Michael C 13 Dec 2011 The Persistence of Allende’s Vision The Putney Debater
• Martin O’Shaughnessy 1 April 2011 Reporting the Demo, Covering the Crisis 2 La France et la Crise
• James Ladyman 30 March 2011 Don’t Play Politics with Academic Freedom New Statesman
• Henry A. Giroux 18 Jan 2011 Beyond the Swindle of the Corporate University: Higher Education in the Service of Democracy Truth Out

• Simon Head 13 Jan 2011 The Grim Threat to British Universities The New York Review of Books
• Philip Garrahan 9 Jan 2011 UK: Silence as the battle for survival begins University World News
• Chris Newfield 7 January 2011 The View from 2020: How Universities Came Back, Remaking the University
• Martin O’Shaughnessy 2010 Reporting the Demonstration, Covering the Crisis La France et la Crise
• Martin Cohen 9 Dec 2010 Reversing into Trouble Times Higher Education
• Sarah Amsler 2010 Creative Militancy, Militant Creativity, and the New British Student Movement The Huffington Post
• New York Times editorial Wrong Fix for British Universities
• Gregory A Petsko 2010 A Faustian Bargain: An open letter to George M Philip, President of the State University of New York At Albany Genome Biology 11: 138
• Alan Finlayson 2010 Britain, greet the age of privatised Higher Education
• Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy, 2010 The Continuing Challenges Facing Higher Education Funding
• Claire Callender 2010 The 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review and Higher Education
•  BUE RÜBNER HANSEN 2010 The British University as a Millbank Riot UniNomadE 2.0
• Nick Couldry and Angela McRobbie 2010 The Death of the University, English Style Culture Machine
• Stefan Collini 2010 Browne’s Gamble London Review of Books
• Michael Burawoy June 2010 A New Vision of the Public University Transformations of the Public Sphere Social Science Reseach Council, USA
• Martha Nussbaum 2009 Not for Profit Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship 91st Commencement Address at Connecticut College
• Levidow, Les (2002). Marketizing Higher Education: Neoliberal Strategies and Counter-strategies in Robins, Kevin and Webster, Frank eds. The Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets and Management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 227–248
• Robert M. Berdahl 2000 The Privatization of Public Universities

Podcasts:

• Philip Moriarty et al  2010 Ivory Tower: are close ties with industry undermining scientific research? BBC Radio 4 (to listen to the podcast, you need to cut and paste this link into a web browser: www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzpjm/Ivory_Tower.mp3)

Resources (including background government reports):

• The Browne Review: This Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance was launched on the 9th November 2009. The review was tasked with making recommendations to Government on the future of fees policy and financial support for full and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students
• The HEPI Review: The Higher Education Policy Institute, an independent thinktank, published an analysis on 11 November 2010 which provides a summary of the differences between the Browne Review and the government’s proposals; considers whether these proposals meet the two main objectives of reducing public expenditure and improving university teaching by increasing student choice; and examines the claim that the repayment scheme is progressive.
• The Wakeham Report: This report on financial sustainability and efficiency in full economic costing of research in UK higher education institutions identifies efficiency savings that UK Universities will need to make over the next three years.
• The Smith Report: One Step Beyond: Making the Most of Postgraduate Education. This report recommends that the funding of postgraduate research should be concentrated more heavily on an elite of research institutions.
• Privatizing Our Universities: A report by the University and College Union (UCU)

• Academic privatisation – Greece
• Academic privatisation – Sri Lanka
• George Lakoff on the privatisation of the University of California system
• EUROPE: Neo-liberals push university privatisation