Yes to all of this:
“Australian universities need fixing, not just a funding boost. The sector is engulfed in scandals, from excessive pay for management, to wage underpayments, to huge spending on things like consultants, travel and advertising.

These issues don’t just come from underfunding; they stem from how universities are structured and regulated. Most importantly, the management of universities needs to become accountable to students, staff and the public at large. Without fixing the sector’s governance issues, additional public money is at risk of being mismanaged, undermining the public confidence necessary to maintain higher levels of public funding.”
(Jack Thrower, Senior Economist -Australia Institute : 3 hours ago 15.30 AEDT Link: https://live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-point-live-new-data-reveals-taxpayers-subsidising-fossil-fuel-companies-to-the-tune-of-16-2-billion-record-oil-release-to-ease-prices-husic-backs-gas-export-tax/?post=6a5561d50a#6a5561d50a )

#TertiarySector #FundingUniversities #Managerialism #EducationCorporateStyle

This is heartbreaking & so, so foolish. Dr Isobel Crealy

#AusPol #Education #managerialism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/21/something-is-rotten-in-australias-tertiary-education-and-utss-suspension-of-teaching-courses-is-one-of-its-biggest-disgraces?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Polls in the #UK show overwhelming support for #renationalisation of rail, power and water. There is massive support for #TaxTheRich and putting a stop to #TaxEvasion. They also show that 80% plus do not support #privitatisation in the #NHS. There is broad support for #GreenEnergy and a #greeneconomy. #RefugeesAreWelcome too.

What do we get. #Managerialism and barely controlled decline towards #collapse when the far right take over to create a #fascist state to benefit the #billionaires that bank roll the wannabe hitlers.

The #government do not represent the will of the people. They are about as far removed from the will of the people as its possible to be. We can't change that with the Parlimentary system. It doesn't matter which party you vote for as they are all compromised by the rich, both here in the UK and abroad. No political party represents the people.

We need to change everything, and very soon.

Boeing CEO, as he plans to fire 17000 people, 10% of the workforce:

We need “to reset our workforce levels to align with our financial reality and to a more focused set of priorities”

Will these priorities include safety assurance, quality control and engineering excellence?

https://www.ft.com/content/0807d7e6-27e6-4561-8df2-424f201c2774

#Boeing #Managerialism

I fully agree with Mairéad Pratschke’s analysis here in Generative AI and Education: Digital Pedagogies, Teaching Innovation and Learning Design. From loc 2231:

The innovation we have seen in digital education over the last two decades risks being undermined if we use GAI to revert to outdated models of delivery. GAI, rather than increasing automation in education, should enable more interaction, more active learning, more personalisation. The focus for educators therefore needs to be on the design of active, collaborative and constructivist learning that encourages sense-making and critical engagement rather than the generation of content

But it’s important to contextualise how educators come to define their focus and articulate pedagogical purposes. Unless the funding situation changes in UK HEIs, there will be continued pushes for ‘efficiency’: in which case the capacity for automation will be what is seized upon in order to deliver teaching to larger classes with smaller teams. I increasingly worry the vocabulary of co-intelligence, which I’ve also been prone to using, will contribute to this process. If I was a university manager trying to encourage academics to be open to automation through GAI, I would talk about ‘team teaching with conversational agents’.

We need to be extremely sensitive to the tropes and metaphors circulating around GAI in higher education over the coming years. They will be core elements in how the adoption and imposition of GAI in educational practice will be contested. The language of cultural technology, as well as I think being ontologically more accurate, will be harder to weaponise in order to support automation agendas.

Which means I should probably stop talking about ‘conversational agents’ all the time if I want to be consistent 🤔

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/09/12/how-we-integrate-gai-into-teaching-will-be-as-much-determined-by-political-economy-as-pedagogical-purpose/

#automation #coIntelligence #generativeAI #higherEducation #MairéadPratschke #managerialism #teaching

Dieser Text aus dem #Manager Magazin (ich lese das nicht! Firefox Empfehlung) zur Serie #TheBear liest sich wie ein Stück Realsatire. Die Brutalität eines politökonomischen Systems, das ganze Regionen (Chicago) verwüstet, wird als interessanter Anwendungsfall für "bessere Führung" genutzt. #Managerialism #Neoliberalismus #foodie

https://www.manager-magazin.de/hbm/fuehrung/the-bear-fuehrungsfehler-in-der-erfolgsserie-und-wie-es-besser-geht-a-a505715f-5b20-4ccc-a365-5cc421da40f6?utm_source=pocket-newtab-de-de

I'm sure I'm not the only one who reads 'HR speak' and feels that an organisation that uses any words like 'contemporary', 'agile', 'collaborative', 'inclusive', 'diverse', or 'mature', is in truth none of those. #buzzwords #managerialism #weaselwords

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/rare-recruitment-guide-reveals-what-it-takes-to-be-a-spy-sort-of-20240819-p5k3ja

RT @johndcook: "Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive." -- Stanislav Datskovskiy

#managerialism https://twitter.com/JohnDCook/status/1761078367061733877