RUPERT READ IS NOT THE PEER THE GREEN PARTY NEEDS

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged acab, climate change, colonialism, elections, environment, Extinction Rebellion, featured, free speech, Green Party, House of Lords, international aid, JK Rowling, metropolitan police, migration, neoliberalism, Parliament, philosophy, police, politics, racism, rupert read, transphobia, uk, University of East Anglia, wages, white saviourism, XR.

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By Robyn Banks

Content warning: mentions transphobia

As the Green Party lets its members elect its third member of the House of Lords, one candidate’s name has jumped to my attention more than the rest: Rupert Read. For those who don’t know, Read is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, a former Green Party Councillor in Norwich and, according to his website, a ‘climate and environmental campaigner’. Whilst this can be seen as an impressive list of roles and beliefs, these aren’t the reason that Read’s name caught my eye.

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WHY LORD ADONIS IS WRONG ABOUT POLYTECHNICS

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Anglia Ruskin University, class discrimination, course cuts, education, employer bias, employment, establishment, funding, funding cuts, government, higher education, House of Lords, job cuts, Lord Adonis, lower income backgrounds, politics, polytechnics, postgraduate study, rent, staff cuts, student accommodation, student debt, student loans, student welfare, tony blair, tuition fees, universities, vice chancellor pay, voters, working class.

This week, former education minister Lord Adonis decided to reopen a debate that was seemingly long-dead. During a report to a House of Lords Committee, he stated that the decision to allow polytechnics to become universities 25 years ago was “a very serious mistake”. This problematic claim reveals the real views of someone who has lately been seen as posing significant challenges of the higher education sector’s issues.

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ENOUGH PESSIMISM ABOUT HE – A RESPONSE TO JIM DICKINSON

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academics, ceo, consumerism, customer service, direct action, fee rises, fossil free, government, higher education, House of Lords, ideology, Jim Dickinson, marketisation, national student survey, NSS Boycott, pessimism, politics, power, respect, student activism, student life, student mental health, student movement, student satisfaction, students, students' unions, teaching, tef, The Guardian, Tories, tuition fees, UEA, UEA SU, universities, university management, Vice Chancellors, writing.

by Lewis Martin

In a recent article for the Guardian, UEA SU CEO Jim Dickinson wrote about universities’ failure to produce anything satisfactory for its students, as well as the lack of transparency around how tuition fees are spent. Helpful though it is to point out the issues faced by the student movement, Dickinson fails to offer any type of remedy for them at any point, suggesting that cynical resignation is the only possible response.

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