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"The slide deck created by consultants Nous Group was left in an ANU staff lunchroom and provided to AFR Weekend." Leaked consulting firm slide deck gives hints on ANU job cuts afr.com/work-and-caree…

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 Bart W. Édes youtube.com/watch?v=Jfti1o…

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 Employment Policies Latest blog 👉 buff.ly/3WM9fqK

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, Will Brehm!

Our buoyant tertiary education sector as measured by VC salaries - with the University of Canberra the most buoyant.

After several delays, Department of Government Efficiency 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. 🧵

SCOOP: Department of Government Efficiency 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! 🧵

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.

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! 👇 freshedpodcast.com/sahlberg-savag…

🚀Mission-oriented industrial strategy needs to be more than words. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose's Mariana Mazzucato, Sarah Doyle & Luca Kühn von Burgsdorff outline how to design, implement, and govern missions, and how governments can deliver transformative change. 🔗Read the report: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

Happy to share my blog post for FreshEd 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/recommended/an…

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. philip lewis explains what happened next dlvr.it/TJQYVM

I had a great conversation about "Raised to Obey" with Will Brehm for FreshEd. Thank you Will Brehm for inviting me and for so many excellent questions! Listen to "Why did mass education rise and spread?" here: freshedpodcast.com/paglayan/ Princeton University Press #Education

American universities are deliberately destroying academic freedom to protect their endowments. So much for academic freedom...

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

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.

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New short article out in Dialogues in Human Geography! 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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… Politics and International Studies Cambridge Cambridge Centre of Development Studies (1/3)

New article alert! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…