Archives by: Elisabeth Gehrke

Elisabeth Gehrke

7 Posts 0 comments

About the author

Elisabeth Gehrke Posts

Winter is coming

Column
Commodification is a non-issue in the northern countries. But being unaware of its descent and unprepared for its effects will have severe consequences that will be much harder ...
Read more 2

Don’t miss the big picture!

Column
The debate concerning the stressful workload in student unions show that there are many improvements needed. But we must not forget the big picture which is why the ...
Read more 2

Lets do this thing!

Column
Why don’t we follow the agreements that we’ve signed? When it comes to higher education, it seems like these ambitions have been flushed, writes Elisabeth Gehrke.  ...
Read more 1

The power of language

Column
Its almost invisible, but the transformation of education from a human right to a commodity is one of the greatest threats of our time. We have to question ...
Read more 1

Don’t let MOOCs limit social mobility!

Column
By starting up massive open online courses, the doors to higher education might become more open. But that depends entirely on how those courses affect our ambitions towards ...
Read more 1

True participation or bust!

Column
The democratically chosen student representatives are threatened by so called “representatives” from policy organizations, this harms the fight that the students have been fighting for so long, writes ...
Read more 1

Cut the loan scheme and the crap

Column
The loan scheme proposed in the new European Union budget sadly reflects uncritical thinking in the EU, and does little more than support banks at the expense of students, ...
Read more 1