On
Tuesday, 20 September, Standing Up For
Education, the latest publication by Spokesman Books, was launched in the Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham.
It provides an excellent compilation of insights from different perspectives
including students, teachers, trade unionists and parents into the devastating processes of
destruction of primary and secondary education. Emphasising the situation in
Nottingham, the volume provides a snapshot into processes affecting also other
local communities across the UK. In this blog post, I will report on the
contributions by four of the authors, who were present at the book launch.
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Going Beyond Academia: The Challenges of Engaged Research.
What
is engaged research? How can it be made acceptable within academia and be
useful for social movements? What is the relationship between engaged
researchers and activists? Over 50 scholar-activists gathered at the University
of Nottingham for the workshop on Going
Beyond Academia, hosted by the Centre for the Study of
Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) to discuss these issues and related
themes. In this blog post, I will make some personal observations on some of
the themes discussed at this fascinating and extremely productive workshop.
Friday, 25 July 2014
Exploited for a good cause? Campaigning against unpaid internships in the UK charity sector.
Unpaid
internships in businesses are considered by many to be unfair. However, what if
this unpaid work, takes place in a non-profit organisation purporting to fight
poverty and human rights abuses? As an intern for such a charity, Vera Weghmann
campaigned for workers’ rights, especially union recognition and fair pay,
while she was expected to work for free! Despite her great admiration for this
charity she and her fellow interns decided to campaign against this injustice.
After six months they had successfully managed to stop the charity’s use of
unpaid internships. In this guest post, Vera Weghmann tells her story:
Saturday, 27 April 2013
The Age of Austerity: Fighting Cuts and Privatisation – Hands Off Our Schools!
The local UCU association at Nottingham University is currently organising a series of talks on local anti-cuts
initiatives. The purpose is to highlight the broader dimension of the coalition
government’s attack on the public sector and welfare state. This post provides
an account of the second event in this series, the presentation by Andrea Oates
from the local anti-academies initiative ‘Hands Off Our Schools’ on Wednesday, 24 April.
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