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At @ARBRadBookfair learning from Les Back why (/if) Higher Education still matters. Based on his book, Academic Diary.
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Recurring: "measuring", "quantifying", "performance", "value", and, more fortunately, "values".
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Quote from Mary Evans: "Education: the more you pay for it, the less it's worth."
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"This machine of measurement is all to find out what counts as a good place for HE. And it IS about counting."
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Neoliberalism in HE institutionalises toxic sense of competition. Back borrows the idea of turning 'envy' into 'admiration' from feminism.
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"Despite the caveats and the cynicism, Goldsmiths [and Higher Education in general] is a place of transformation."
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"The [neoliberal] changes in HE make us insular. Individualised. Disconnected from community."
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