Progressive Cinema and NTEU UNE present IVORY TOWER

Friday, August 21, 2015 - 18:00

At Kent house, 142 Faulkner Street, Arrmidale, community dinner from 7:30pm.

This 2014 documentary by Andrew Rossi examines the factors threatening to bring down America’s once highly envied higher education system.

One commentator claims that the decline of American higher education started in the 1970s when students had the rug pulled from under them by the shift in policy ‘from seeing education as a public good to seeing it exclusively as a private good’.

The film raises worrying questions about where Australian higher education may be headed under the Abbott government, and reinforces why there is such strong public and political opposition to the Americanisation of our once world class public higher education system.

Entry free, donations welcome.