@UniCanberra Associate Professor & Creator of @FreshEdPodcast | https://xitter.cf/t.co/Y88LAcsCXz
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Catch Marta Estellés on @FreshEdPodcast, unpacking the term "safety" in education with host @Wbrehm.
🎧 freshedpodcast.com/estelles/…
Marta's book, The Safetyfication of Education, is available to read #openaccess: bit.ly/41GXUKK - as well as in hardback
ALT Banner for the book The Safetyfication of Education: Neoliberalism, Psychopolitics and the End of Critical Education
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New article alert! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
New article alert! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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New short article out in @DialoguesHG! I offer a historical sketch and a conceptual framework tracing the formation of legal regimes of investment control in the dialectics of empire and capital.
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@Dept_of_POLIS @CdsCambridge
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RFA does amazing reporting in the most difficult conditions in this region - especially Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia. We rely on them a lot - this is a real blow to us, to transparency accountability in Asia, to keeping people informed about what’s really going on. Very sad.
🧵 (1/3) The federal grants that fund Radio Free Asia and partner networks were terminated Saturday morning, according to a grant termination notice received by RFA.
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Hundreds of Columbia students in the streets demanding Trump release Mahmoud Khalil & Leqaa Kordia — and demanding that Columbia repeal its expulsion of Grant Miner, president of the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW
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American universities are deliberately destroying academic freedom to protect their endowments. So much for academic freedom...
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I had a great conversation about "Raised to Obey" with Will Brehm for @FreshEdPodcast. Thank you @Wbrehm for inviting me and for so many excellent questions!
Listen to "Why did mass education rise and spread?" here: freshedpodcast.com/paglayan/
@PrincetonUPress #Education
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Instead of listening to students, educators and the person charged with creating a curriculum, board members in a 94% white school district rejected a novel set in 1921 Tulsa, Okla.
@Phil_Lewis_ explains what happened next
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Happy to share my blog post for @FreshEdPodcast on how conservative & right-wing politicians and commentators reappropriate such terms as diversity, free speech, and woke in the educational contexts to serve their own agenda freshedpodcast.com/recommend…
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🚀Mission-oriented industrial strategy needs to be more than words.
@IIPP_UCL's @MazzucatoM, @SarahDoyleTO & @LucaBurgsdorff outline how to design, implement, and govern missions, and how governments can deliver transformative change.
🔗Read the report: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-pu…
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And we're back! To kick off 2025, Pasi Sahlberg and Glenn Savage join Will Brehm for our first interview. Is it time to rethink the meaning of "effectiveness" and "improvement" and possibly embrace education philosophy?! Have a listen! 👇
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Pauses in PhD admissions at Pitt, Vanderbilt, and USC.
The US will never be able to compete with authoritarian countries on a lot of dimensions. But our two biggest strengths over them were always immigration & our universities. And now we’re eroding both before our eyes.
Pitt pauses Ph.D. admissions amid uncertain research funding wesa.fm/health-science-tech/…
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SCOOP: @DOGE does damage control
A diff of "savings" estimates from doge.gov between today and yesterday shows that 4 rows have been edited - all corresponding to errors I called out in my thread yesterday. Let's see what they changed!
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This is inaccurate.
In September 2022, the agency contracting officer mistakenly wrote $8B instead of $8M when logging in the FPDS database. DOGE discovered this error in January 2025, and the agency updated FPDS accordingly. DOGE has always used the correct $8M in its calculations.
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On 2/18/2025 the doge.gov/savings Wall of Receipts displayed this line item as $8b, but linked to the revision of this contract that was corrected down to $8m.
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Multiple line items have been revised after errors were pointed out, but the claimed total savings of $55b has not changed.
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After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in.
Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then.
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It's Monday. @DOGE is the laziest, most overpaid bunch of incompetent, unelected bureaucrats we've ever seen.
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Our buoyant tertiary education sector as measured by VC salaries - with the University of Canberra the most buoyant.
The salaries of Uni VCs are obscene when one considers the wage theft they’ve engaged in, the pittance they pay lecturers and the struggles of students. Have your say in the Senate Inquiry into Jacqui Lambie’s ‘There for Education, Not for Profit’ Bill. 👉 aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Bus…
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A special guest visited my Comparative Ed class for Master’s students as part of our yearly tradition!
Fresh ideas, perspectives, and book recommendations from Will Brehm, host of the FreshEd podcast!
Thank you, @Wbrehm!
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What are the connections between Education, Training and #Work ? How do we rethink these connections to create more inclusion and support decent work ?
Read NSI 08 👉 buff.ly/3Q9zTpI with @ILO_EMP_Policy
Latest blog 👉 buff.ly/3WM9fqK
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Weekend Listen: My latest podcast is about Trump's first weeks as president and his impact in SE Asia, with the Canadian academic Bart Edes.
#Trump #ASEAN @Bartapest
youtube.com/watch?v=Jfti1oNt…