{"id":4145,"date":"2011-12-14T20:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T01:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2011-12-14T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T01:40:29","slug":"what-is-the-purpose-of-higher-education-live-chat-16-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4145","title":{"rendered":"What is the purpose of higher education? Live chat, 16 December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been invited to join a live chat on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/higher-education-network\/blog\/2011\/dec\/13\/purpose-of-university\">What is the purpose of higher education?<\/a>. This is being organized by the Guardian Higher Education Network. I&#8217;ve never done a live chat like this, so it will be interesting to see how it works. The question we will be addressing is one posed by Aidan Byrne in his <a href=\"http:\/\/plashingvole.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/live-blogging-politics-of-university.html\">live blogging<\/a> of &#8220;The Politics of the Univesity&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since the 2000s, academic managers and leaders have adopted the discourse of neoliberalism, presented as neutral truth, &#8216;common sense&#8217; or realism. &#8216;Choice&#8217; trumps all other ideas. Universities form businesses, conduct marketing, undertake &#8216;esteem indications&#8217; and surveys. Private income is lionised. Students are encouraged to pursue self-interest: public service is derided. What of the future?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been invited to join a live chat on What is the purpose of higher education?. This is being organized by the Guardian Higher Education Network. I&#8217;ve never done a live chat like this, so it will be interesting to see how it works. The question we will be addressing is one posed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the purpose of higher education? Live chat, 16 December<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}