Excellent from Jeff Sparrow

"How did higher education get so broken? Pretty much the same way as everything else. We live amid the wreckage of formerly treasured institutions & services, despoiled by decades of marketisation and neglect"

Solidarity with Australian colleagues ✊🏻

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/25/how-did-australias-university-system-get-so-broken-pretty-much-the-same-way-as-everything-else?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

How did Australia’s university system get so broken? Pretty much the same way as everything else

We live amid the wreckage of formerly treasured institutions and services, despoiled by decades of marketisation and neglect

The Guardian
This sadly reminds me of the couple of years from the end of my PhD and my current job almost 15 years ago when I taught (and was hourly paid) 6 months a year, across three universities... and it has only gotten worse since...