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Birkbeck University of London Unfolds a Visiting Research Fellow on Hate Speech

Posted By: adminon: March 07, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Galatasaray University, Hate Speech, Marmara University, Media Pluralism Monitor Turkey ProjectNo CommentsViews:

Birkbeck, one of the about a dozen universities that forms the University of London, making it the most populous in the world, is announcing the arrival of Prof Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu who... Read more

Professor Ogoh Alubo’s Groundbreaking Biopolitical Lens on Health and Sickness

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2022In: BookspaceTags: APC, Biopolitcs, David Harvey, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, Giorgio Agamben, Global Governance, Governmentality, GWOT, Neoliberalism, Panopticism, PDP, Political economy, SurveillanceNo CommentsViews:

Neoliberalism as a technology of power rather than only a doctrine of what incisive British Marxist Geographer, David Harvey, calls “creative destruction” and “accumulation by dispossession”... Read more

Seven Reasons Why Your Institution Should Participate in the World University Rankings

Posted By: adminon: February 18, 2022In: BookspaceTags: EUA Survey, OECD Survey, THENo CommentsViews:

Why are university rankings so important? They help institutions build global brand visibility, forge strategic partnerships and recruit international talent Michael Lubacz The portal is ope... Read more

What Prof Ayo Banjo Said on the University Crisis in Nigeria 24 Years Ago

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Awolowo Foundation Dialogue, Longe Report, ScholarshipNo CommentsViews:

It is apt that, on the day that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) begins a month long industrial action across public universities in Nigeria, we remind ourselves of one of th... Read more

Not Yet the End of the Historic ASUU – FG Conflict in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, CAN, IPPIS, NIREC, NUC, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Is it possible that the outcome of the intervention in the age-old conflict between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria by the Nigeria Inte... Read more

A Vice-Chancellor for Oxford and Cambridge Universities

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Brexit, CHINA, COVID-19, Harvard University, UK, University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

With both Oxford and Cambridge seeking new vice-chancellors, Rosa Ellis examines the unique pressures of leading these prestigious universities and the qualities that successful candidates w... Read more

Why This Alli ‘Must Not Go’

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: IRs, Marxist theory, NDA, Neopositivism, NIIA, Poststructuralism, The English SchoolNo CommentsViews:

The popular turn of phrase in Nigeria in this respect is ‘Ali Must Go’. It is the idiom summing up the demand for the removal of Col. Ahmadu Ali, (rtd), the then Minister for Education under... Read more

Prof Abu Ali Back in the News

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Frankfurt scholars, LSN, Obafemi Awolowo University, Oyin Ogunba, Popular cultureNo CommentsViews:

Prof Abu Ali, the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic who was the subject of a recent snap in Intervention is back in the news. This time, it is the news of him serving as the keynote sp... Read more

How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

Birthday Wishes Galore for Prof I. E. S Amdi

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Dr. Yusuf Bangura, Prof Alex Gboyega, Prof Asisi AsobieNo CommentsViews:

With a scholarly career spanning Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; the University of Abuja and now Veritas University, Abuja, it is not surprising the birthday wishes are coming from too many... Read more