Isabelle McNeill and Michael Hrebeniak discuss how to revolutionise the academy.
We need a revolution. Universities are turning into corporations, students, academics and the culture at large is damaged as a result. Cambridge academic Michael Hrebeniak and Isabelle McNeill lay out their vision of how to revolutionise education by removing neo-liberal "outputs" culture and democratising the university once again.
#Academia #Capitalism #Creativity
Michael Hrebeniak is a polymath: an academic, author, film-maker, ex-jazz musician, and journalist. He is Director of Studies in English at Wolfson College and Lecturer in English at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Isabelle McNeill is Philomathia Fellow in French at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where she teaches French literature and cinema.
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