education event at sussex

ON THE CURRENT SITUATION
IN (HIGHER)EDUCATION

This is the first in a weekly series of discussion organised by the what-is-education
working group. We aim to foster critical reflection and public discussion across the university community on the university as a place of life and work - its realities, difficulties, and potentials. Email what-is-education@gmail.com for more information or to get involved. A public meeting to discuss the current and future pressures
on education - financial, cultural and political - and how we can or should respond.

FRIDAY APRIL 23rd, 5:20-7pm. A2.

MARK FISHER Author of the blog k-punk and the recently-published book Capitalist Realism, both of which deal with social and cultural changes following from the contemporary ideology that capitalism is the ‘only game in town’. A particular focus on education stems from his experience as an FE teacher - where he saw first hand the invasion of what he calls ‘business ontology, or elsewhere ‘Nu-bureaucracy’: ‘increasing amounts of bureaucracy, in the form of performance reviews, spurious planning documents, log books: a proliferating thicket of self-surveillance and auditing’

ANDREW CHITTY
Lecturer in the philosophy department, who’ll provide a characteristically rigorous account of the fine detail of the funding of higher education, the parameters by which it is awarded, and the situation that leaves us in.