Battleground university: Neoliberalism is silencing education
1 year, 9 months ago

Battleground university: Neoliberalism is silencing education

Al Jazeera  

Progressive thought and scholarship are under assault on campuses as the idea of the university is hollowed out. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s office has celebrated his state’s anti-critical race theory legislation as a rejection of “the progressivist higher education indoctrination agenda”. When the South African Rhodes Must Fall movement reached the UK and many called for the removal of Cecil Rhodes’s statue from Oriel College at Oxford University, South African apartheid-era President Frederik Willem de Klerk defended the white supremacist’s legacy. This was the case in 2015 when the Japanese government ordered all 86 of the country’s universities to take “steps to abolish organisations or to convert them to serve areas that better meet society’s needs”. Similarly, when Sheffield Halam University announced cuts to its English programmes, the general secretary of the University and College Union, Jo Grady, said: “It is depressing but seems a part of a wider agenda being forced on the universities by governments against the arts and humanities.” But this utilitarian approach to liberal arts and humanities education is only spreading.

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