Teaching the Politics of Higher Education in the General Election 2019
For many of us, the general election raises issues in the subjects we teach. But for those of us taking industrial action, the current state of higher education is also an intense political issue, leading us to think about how education and knowledge production are interconnected with neoliberalism, marketisation, and privatisation. As the International Economic Law Collective put it last week: "The increasing casualisation of teaching flows directly from the erosion of labour conditions sponsored through international economic law global norms in other sectors of the global economy" (see @iel_collective, 28 Nov 2019). Our struggles are connected with transformations in public services and the organisation of work that many workers both within the UK and abroad have already experienced. With the general election only a week away, colleagues at Kent Law School (KLS) have prepared slides for a teach-out on Wednesday 4 December (11-1pm, Woolf Lecture Theatre, University of K