Archive for June 11th, 2016
We stand with Martin Hirst
Posted by John, June 11th, 2016 - under Martin Hirst, Marxism, Roz Ward.
Tags: Academic freedom, Free speech
Comments: 2
This dark environment at Universities is the consequence of the ongoing and deepening commodification of higher education, a process both major parties have been deeply involved in. When your Grundnorm is profit, ideas which challenge that, however expressed, are a threat to the very essence of the machine that is now the University sector. That machine is destroying the University as the seeming bastion of difference and the dissemination of often currently unconventional and unpopular ideas. To defend academic freedom we must defend Martin Hirst.