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#goldsmiths

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Matthew Malthouse

Nine organisations have withdrawn from the Goldsmiths inquiry into antisemitism, after finding that it marginalises Palestinians and appears to target those who criticise Israeli policies and Zionism.

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European Legal Support Center · Joint Public Statement in Response to Independent Inquiry into Antisemitism at Goldsmiths <p>A coalition of organizations has announced their withdrawal from the Independent Inquiry into Antisemitism at Goldsmiths, citing concerns over its exclusionary approach towards Palestinians and those who critique Israeli policies. The statement highlights issues such as a lack of transparency, incoherent responses from the College and Inquiry Chair, and the refusal to consider the impact of the Inquiry’s process on Palestinian and other minoritized groups. The decision underscores broader concerns about the misuse of antisemitism allegations to silence Palestinian voices and suppress academic freedom.</p>
#antisemitism#antizionism#palestine
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UCU

UCU members at Goldsmiths University of London have voted to take continuous strike action from 23 September in defence of jobs. Management must think again, cancel the cuts and work with us to safeguard Goldsmiths' future. If not they face long term disruption

Over 90 members of staff at risk of losing their jobs before the start of the next academic year in September.

ucu.org.uk/article/13686/Conti

www.ucu.org.ukContinuous strike action announced at Goldsmiths UCU has today announced that staff at Goldsmiths, University of London will take continuous strike action from Monday 23 September as part of its long running dispute over the university's brutal redundancy programme.
#UCU#UKHE#HigherEducation
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sheislaurence

@pvonhellermannn YES, go #Goldsmiths!!! Their webpage/statement should be a template for all #universities responding to #studentprotests demands on #Palestine! They address a RANGE of demands, from supporting #education reconstruction in #Gaza, #scholarships, security response, culture (use of #antisemitism vs. #islamophobia). As for the #divestment demands, EXTENSIVE response as well, fund manager review, review of honorary grad. donations... CONGRATULATIONS, protest works!!🥳

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

#UK #HigherEd #Humanities #Universities #Goldsmiths: "More sinister is the sense that Freedman describes: “It’s hard not to think that a culture war is being evoked against you simply for trying to think independently and critically.” Science minister Michelle Donelan’s recent shameful attack on two academics, reporting them to UKRI (the national research-funding body) for extremism and blighting their lives over an accusation that was wholly without foundation, springs to mind – but then so does almost everything Donelan and education secretary Gillian Keegan say about the sector in general, and humanities in particular. All those references to “woke ideology”, “intolerant woke bullies” and “cancel culture” are increasingly accompanied by defunding of the humanities, using increased accessibility to education as a fig leaf, as Keegan announced last week.

“Your subjects are mocked and called low value,” Freedman says. “Arts, humanities and social sciences haven’t played the instrumentalist game, so they’re seen as easy targets by tabloids, by GB News. We would laugh it off, but this is a huge asset to the British economy.” More importantly, he continues, “it’s not just a tragedy – it’s almost like a crime to shrink those spaces that provide a home for the inquisitive, the experimental. If the space disappears, it’s very hard to recreate it.”" theguardian.com/education/2024

The Guardian · The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiralBy Zoe Williams
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Joanna Bryson, blathering

representing as they do “a pedagogical practice that calls students beyond themselves, embraces the ethical imperative for them to care for others, embrace historical memory, work to dismantle structures of domination, and to become subjects rather than objects of history, politics, and power”.

That’s from Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Fascist Politics by the American academic Henry Giroux,...

but cf #brexit #goldsmiths

2/3 oh it got even better, read it all but

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Lyla Mehta

"Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack"

The scale of forced redundancies in English Higher Education is currently unbelievable, & it's mostly arts, humanities & critical social sciences affected.

#UK #HigherEducation #Redundancies #Goldsmiths

theguardian.com/education/2024

The Guardian · The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiralBy Zoe Williams
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Ian Hunt

Our friend Angela McRobbie has written a brilliant account of Goldsmiths and its students and staff over time; including the impact of Brexit. The place is being casually and cynically trashed. About one in three staff in the union are going to have to train as unpaid caseworkers to cope with the planned redundancies. #HigherEducation #UCU #Goldsmiths versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/new

VersoA Goldsmiths DiaryThese are desperate times in the UK higher education system. Every week there are closures of degrees or departments, and sizeable redundancies. Disproportionately it is the arts, humanities and social sciences that are affected, a consequence of their downgrading in recent years. The frequency with which common-sense
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

#UK #London #Goldsmiths #Universities #Humanities #HigherEd #Neoliberalism #Austerity: "The most immediate and seemingly tangible rationale for these closures and reductions in provision is falling student numbers. But to focus on this is as if it was just a matter of student ‘choices’, market forces and the ebb and flow of fashionable and unfashionable subjects, is to obfuscate a series of interrelated factors that have made so many institutions and departments vulnerable to cuts. Turning to my own institution (where I am an active emeritus professor), there is a poignancy running through the words that follow. Quite independent of the intricacies of managerial decision making, Goldsmiths, University of London exemplifies all the admirable strengths and now the fragilities of the sector. It is not so much that Goldsmiths is such an exceptional case that it deserves singling out for special support (though that would be welcome). But rather, with a large number of compulsory redundancies announced in the last week alone, we not only need to pay critical attention with people’s livelihoods and family lives on the line, but we also need to take stock of what the future of higher education looks like in this increasingly bleak landscape. It is shocking news to us all, as the management are looking to lose 130 full-time equivalent positions across 11 departments. With so much at stake there must surely be other ways to secure financial stability. The reality is that Goldsmiths is a microcosm. It has always been something of an experiment in higher education (in the best possible sense) and now it stands to lose much of its identity and of the wider value it has delivered as an egalitarian institution dedicated to combining international research with a socially inclusive education." versobooks.com/blogs/news/a-go

VersoA Goldsmiths DiaryThese are desperate times in the UK higher education system. Every week there are closures of degrees or departments, and sizeable redundancies. Disproportionately it is the arts, humanities and social sciences that are affected, a consequence of their downgrading in recent years. The frequency with which common-sense
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Gary Hall

Powerful piece by Angela McRobbie on the Verso blog about the threatened redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the wider attack on UK's higher education system in general, and the arts, humanities and social sciences in particular.

versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/new

'The decimation of the humanities and social sciences is an affront to educational common-sense, any idea of social cohesion, needs these subject areas to be at the heart of education and everyday life.'

#universities #highered #art #humanities #socialscience #cuts #Goldsmiths #highered
#neoliberalism

VersoA Goldsmiths DiaryThese are desperate times in the UK higher education system. Every week there are closures of degrees or departments, and sizeable redundancies. Disproportionately it is the arts, humanities and social sciences that are affected, a consequence of their downgrading in recent years. The frequency with which common-sense
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