Assault on Universities

Michael Bailey is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the co-editor of The Assault on Universities (Pluto, 2011), Mediating Faiths (Routledge, 2011) and Narrating Media History (Routledge, 2008). He has held visiting fellowships at Goldsmiths, the LSE and the University of Cambridge.Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and an editor of the journal Global Media and Communication. He is the co-editor of The Assault on Universities (Pluto, 2011), and author of The Politics of Media Policy (Polity, 2008), Television Policies of the Labour Party (Routledge, 2003) and War and the Media (Sage, 2003).

• INTRODUCTION1. An Introduction to Education Reform and Resistance by Des FreedmanPart 1: THE CHANGING IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY2. The Idea of the University by John K. Walton3. What is a University Education For? by Neil Faulkner4. Fighting for the University’s Life by Nick CouldryPart II: CURRENT CHALLENGES AND FUTURE VISIONS5. Economic Alternatives in the Current Crisis by Aeron Davis6. Re-Imagining the Public Good by Jon Nixon7. The War Against Democracy and Education by Nick StevensonPart III: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY8. The University as a Political Space by Alberto Toscano9. The Academic as Truth-Teller by Michael Bailey10. Impoverished Pedagogy, Privatised Practice by Natalie FentonPart IV: STUDENT POLITICS11. Students Revolts Then and Now by John Rees12. The Politics of Occupation by Feyzi Ismail13. Achievements and Limitations of the UK Student Movement by Ashok KumarPart V: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES14. Beyond the Swindle of the Corporate University by Henry A. Giroux15. Education Reforms in a European Context by Marion von Osten16. International Students and the Globalisation of Higher Education by Kirsten ForkertPART VI THE MANIFESTO Demands on GovernmentDemands on UniversitiesSignatories to the ManifestoNotes on contributorsIndex

'The corporatising of universal education is one of the most insidious and dangerous attacks on the very notion of human rights. This book calls us to arms. Every student, every educator who cares should read it'