Repression and Resistance in the Neoliberal University: More than a decade after a student protest movement erupted in Haiti's universities, a deadly crackdown continues and the fight for better conditions is more urgent than ever.

(UN PHOTO / LOGAN ABASSI / FLICKR) In poor countries, public universities have been all but abandoned, increasingly left to compete with better-resourced private distance education corporations and national private universities financed by international capital. Students and professors no longer work in a university model set up by and under state control to promote development following many colonized countries' independence. [Extracted from the article]