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https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1295959585572950018?s=20
Here the Economist leading the charge to take advantage of the covid pandemics to further normalize universities: Get rid of "useless" (for them) subjects, online courses for the masses, in person education for the elite in top institutions. 1/n
Here the Economist leading the charge to take advantage of the covid pandemics to further normalize universities: Get rid of "useless" (for them) subjects, online courses for the masses, in person education for the elite in top institutions. 1/n
This is how the neoliberal international will try a new defunding of culture and higher education. @WOinactie this is the narrative we may expect in NL as well. 2/n
'Never get a good crisis go to waste", as per the shock doctrine. The up side of all this is that the pandemics showed as clearly as possible how the current economic and cultural model is completely inappropriate to tackle the momentous challenges of our time. 3/n
A society that can fully leverage on the talents of people from many different backgrounds: We need more anthropologists to makes sense of how societies react to new conditions, fewer MBAs. More virologists, fewer app developers. And so on. 4/n
Social sciences, humanities, exact sciences, now as ever we need them all, and we need universities as the place to support personal growth, to create critical thought (or many critical thoughts), and novel communities and networks of people 5/n
The hegemony of the neoliberal model is at its weakest ever. We can only hope that, this time it may, finally, end up at the receiving end of the shock doctrine. As academics we can bring an important contribution to that. Game on! 6/n
