1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/
Also some excellent reflections on this in @rahulraothariel.bsky.social 's the psychic lives of statues.
'the task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist'
glad to see OfS ‘free speech’ crusaders with egg on their face
Aparna Nair
Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
