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 (DIR) Post #ARMl88Aq52HBnfvvHM by pavlosvas1@sciences.social
       2022-11-24T11:19:31Z
       
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       As UK academics are once more on strike, here is an extremely informative read by Dr. Lee Jones on the impact of the marketization of higher education on students and staff #UCUrising https://medium.com/@drleejones/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-marketisation-in-british-higher-education-c91102a04a8f
       
 (DIR) Post #ARMl88aMY8h14psJ3w by freeDomForTooting@qoto.org
       2022-11-24T14:17:56Z
       
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       @pavlosvas1This bit feels even more relevant for today’s #UCU #strike #ucuRISINGFor many years, academics accepted relatively low pay (relative to their skill level) and long hours in exchange for relative #autonomy at work and a dignified retirement. That #socialContract has been torn up under a decade of #marketisation. The supply of “good will” (i.e. #underpaid and #unpaidLabour) that has kept #universities running for a long time is now close to zero. Even if the employers win in this dispute, it will be a #Phyrric victory, or a Carthaginian one — creating a desert and calling it peace. Unless vice-chancellors change course, #workplace relations will be poisoned for a generation and universities will become increasingly #dysfunctional.The Seven Deadly Sins of Marketisation in British Higher Education by Lee Jones