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- Title
The Funnelling: Higher Education for Labour-power Production in the Shadow of Covid-19.
- Authors
Rikowski, Glenn
- Abstract
This article explores how the UK Conservative Government's Department for Education is taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to restructure higher education in England towards labour-power production. There is nothing new in UK governments seeking to reshape higher education for labour-power development. But under cover of apparent concern for students' well-being in the pandemic, the consequences for higher education institutions viewed as slacking or heel-dragging regarding their labour-power production drives have never been greater following the publication of Establishment of a Higher Education Restructuring Regime in Response to Covid-19 (DfE, 2020a): market exit and closure. The Great Interruption in labour-power production generated by Covid-19 can pose the question of whether we continue to assent to our labour-power being shaped for capital, or whether we redirect flows of labour-power development in directions of post-capitalist futures.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; GREAT Britain. Dept. for Education; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; HIGHER education; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; MARKET exit
- Publication
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS), 2021, Vol 19, Issue 2, p23
- ISSN
2051-0969
- Publication type
Article