and here's a slightly more populist ( but very good) take on it from,
bizarrely, Metro, the free London daily
paper:http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/01/professors-are-being-told-to-spy-on-their-students-heres-what-you-need-to-know-5789770/
cheersmichael
From: Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"
from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the
list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?
thanks, Alan
On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly
> what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
> institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
> those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
> (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of a
> wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the development
> of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.
>
> Sigh!
> Ruth
>
> On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
> Hi all
> the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart
> the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they
> made it compulsory for every further education student to attend
> ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and
> put pressure on HE lecturers to pressure their students to
> attend.
>
> In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our
> management and copied in the UCU ( the lecturers union)
> membership and my students too, whom I regard, perhaps
> unfashionably, as being capable of making their own minds up
> about things.
> I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior
> manager.
> I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate
> support - at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and
> commenting upon the posts but it could well come to some sort of
> campaign if they attempt to discipline me. Here's my original
> email:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/
>
>
> and here's the latest exchange:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/
>
> please feel free to circulate this
>
> many thanks
> michael
>
>
>
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