Category Archives: News
Three-D Issue 18: Chair’s report
Sue Thornham University of Sussex This issue of Three-D features reports on the excellent 2012 conference held at the University of Bedfordshire, as well as photos of some of its academic and less academic highlights. You can also see the … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: Local public service television: New idea for master’s level course
David Rushton Institute of Local Television This one calendar year course will be at masters level. It follows the successful – if short lived – masters in local TV management run by the Institute of Local Television in conjunction with … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: Reading the riots on Twitter
Farida Vis University of Leicester When the UK was hit by a wave of riots last summer, the government was quick to suggest that they were categorically not linked to poverty, lack of social mobility, the economic crisis, cuts to … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: Multiculturalism and internationalisation in Romanian HE
Marcela Ganea Artifex University of Bucharest In a world increasingly inter-dependent, multiculturalism can be an asset for the progress of a society, if a country has good educational policies in place that allow integration and to take advantage of the … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: Higher education in Ireland
Gavan Titley National University of Ireland, Maynooth According to The Guardian (22 March), Ireland is back in recession. While many people may be surprised to hear that it had exited it at all, of late, this news was cast as … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: The key
Story by: Jackey Reuben, Illustrations by: Chantal de Broglio This is a short satire by a MeCCSA member about marketing in a University. The Exit There is always darkness before the dawn – wherever we might be. Do we have … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: Even more bad news from London Met
Gholam Khiabany University of Sussex The impact of the government’s devastating attacks on universities and the corporatizing of education under the banner of “choice” are more visible in post 92 universities and nowhere more so than the beleaguered London Metropolitan … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: The managerial Cuckoos
John Brissenden Bournemouth University John Wyndham’s 1957 sci-fi novel, The Midwich Cuckoos, tells the story of an English village which is visited by a mysterious extraterrestrial presence, and then plays host to a group of demonic children, who defend each … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: Market fundamentalism and new communications regulation
Damian Tambini London School of Economics Media regulation is one of those things, like puddings, that the British think they do rather well. This helps explain the spasms of introspection that phone hacking and the failure of press self-regulation have … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: This system needs fixing
Des Freedman Goldsmiths, University of London This is a boom time for Murdoch-watchers. On 16 February 2012, the normally sober sub-editors at the Financial Times pronounced the imminent demise of the world’s most notorious media mogul with the headline ‘Gotcha! … Continue reading