All Outputs (10)

Motivation, markets and meaning: Perceptions of higher education in students at élite and local universities in England and Cuba (2023)
Journal Article

This article reports research exploring students’ perceptions of higher education in traditional and local universities in England and Cuba. The study has explored parallels identified in the course of research-informed teaching that harvested qualit... Read More about Motivation, markets and meaning: Perceptions of higher education in students at élite and local universities in England and Cuba.

Neoliberal hegemony and the task for critical education (2020)
Journal Article

The starting point for this article is an explication of the essence of Marxism, which is argued as the most efficacious theoretical framework for understanding the current historical conjuncture. I then provide a description of the development of ca... Read More about Neoliberal hegemony and the task for critical education.

Neoliberal development and struggle against it: The importance of social class, mystification and feasibility (2018)
Journal Article

In this article I introduce and develop neoliberalism through a discussion of Marxism and the way that classed mystification and feasibility are crucial concepts for understanding the maintenance of neoliberalism, and revolutionary possibilities. The... Read More about Neoliberal development and struggle against it: The importance of social class, mystification and feasibility.

The neoliberalization of higher education in England: An alternative is possible (2017)
Journal Article

© Author(s) 2017. In this article, we provide a critical explanation and critique of neoliberalism. We attempt an innovative focus ranging from the wider contemporary political and ideological shifts, to the way in which neoliberal policy specificall... Read More about The neoliberalization of higher education in England: An alternative is possible.

The Neoliberalisation of Higher Education in England: An Alternatives is Possible (2017)
Journal Article

In this article, we provide a critical explanation and critique of neoliberal policy. We attempt an innovative focus ranging from the wider contemporary political and ideological shifts, to specific higher education influences and consequences, of ne... Read More about The Neoliberalisation of Higher Education in England: An Alternatives is Possible.

Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England (2016)
Journal Article

This article, written in December 2016 following the election in May 2016 of a majority Conservative government, and the election to the leadership of the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing social democrat, ?Old Labour style socialist?, revis... Read More about Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England.

Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand (2016)
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The importance of education for social transformation is not exclusively something that is done in schools and universities. Taking education in its broadest formulation ? something that happens all of the time, in this article I posit the argument t... Read More about Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand.

The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university (2016)
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The provocation and point of this paper is that universities of the North during the era of neoliberalism of have been sucked of their human life-giving capacities. What remains are closed doors and bare walls. Lest we give the impression of a hopele... Read More about The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university.

Neoliberal and neoconservative immiseration capitalism in England: Policies and impacts on society and on education (2015)
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In this article we firstly set out the facts about the current stage of capitalism, the Immiseration stage of neoliberal capitalism in England. We note its relationship with conservatism and neo-conservatism. We identify increased societal inequaliti... Read More about Neoliberal and neoconservative immiseration capitalism in England: Policies and impacts on society and on education.

The neo-liberalisation policy agenda and its consequences for education in England: A focus on resistance now and possibilities for the future (2014)
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In this article, the author explores the way that neo-liberalism is becoming more entrenched in the fabric of the education system in England. The article begins by setting out a very brief historical trajectory of neo-liberalism to provide a working... Read More about The neo-liberalisation policy agenda and its consequences for education in England: A focus on resistance now and possibilities for the future.