In these months, after the proposal to close this list at the end of the second round of discussion, we have not communicated news about this project. In the meantime, activities have been continuing off screen. Working with the materials collected over the past 2 years, we have put together a book that is composed by the richness and multiplicity of the posts that gave life to the edu-factory project. The book, which will be published in Italian by manifestolibri, is entitled L'universita' globale: il nuovo mercato del sapere (The Global University: The New Market for Knowledge). It is the result of the selection and translation of many of the contributions to the list in the past 2 years. This book is now ready. Meanwhile we are also working to publish this book in the English language, as well as Spanish, French and German. If anybody would help us to realise this work, please let us know. In the next weeks, we will be launching this book and the edu-factory project in Italian universities and the presentation will be recorded and put on our web site as soon as possible.

In Italian universities (and indeed across the wider spectrum of the country's education system) there are currently very strong protests against cutbacks by Italian government. The slogan of this movement is "We won't pay for your crisis".  We see the edu-factory books as a tool to open a debate, socializing the 2 years of collective and transnational research that we have made together on the edu-factory list.

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