@HardmanWil

Disrupting language hierarchies & ideologies. Critical EAP & raciolinguistics. Building academic identity, not conformity. Chair Liv UCU. Convenor @EapforSJ.

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Joined March 2018
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Proud to share our recent article with Jeni Driscoll and @RobPlayfair in @LangScholar where we explore Teachers Forums, a form of grassroots teacher development, and the tensions of engaging in scholarship in a university language centre #EAP #Scholarship tinyurl.com/57yk3c3m
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I look forward to being trained in antisemitism awareness at my university by a programme that hasn’t included Jewish members of staff. Interesting.
Sky News
@SkyNews12 Oct 2025
'Antisemitism and other forms of hatred thrive where there is ignorance' Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says universities have a responsibility to educate people about antisemitism and take action against it. trib.al/GMH8aBc #TrevorPhillips 📺 Sky 501 and YT
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Greta Thunberg gives her first words after she was released from Israeli prison where she was beat and forced to kiss the Israeli flag. She says the story is not about them, the story is about Gaza.
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While the Italian government abandoned the Gaza flotilla, the Italian working class has not. The strike has been called for this Friday, and it follows a similar 24-hour general strike on Sept. 22. The Genoa’s Dockworkers’ Union (CALP) vowed it would “block everything” if anything happened to the flotilla.
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Unite UCU@UniteUCU19 Sep 2025
With another 9 @ucu branches now calling on UCU to do the right thing we wonder if @drjogrady is listening to her members.
We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to: • Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions. • Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS - this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action. Signed, 25, no, 37, no, now 46 UCU branch committees (and still counting)

ALT We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to: • Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions. • Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS - this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action. Signed, 25, no, 37, no, now 46 UCU branch committees (and still counting)

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UCU
@ucu15 Sep 2025
Staff at @uniofleicester to strike for three weeks over plans to slash hundreds of jobs leicestermercury.co.uk/news/…

Three weeks of strikes announced for university staff

Entire degrees could be axed

leicestermercury.co.uk
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HE is under attack - it’s not alarmist, it’s a fact. Mass redundancies, year on year pay cuts, narrowing of curricula, packing students onto courses, ever increasing workloads... University workers, we need to vote yes.
UCU
@ucu15 Sep 2025
Universities are under attack. By defending ourselves, we are defending the whole sector. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity
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Unite UCU@UniteUCU12 Sep 2025
Sometimes solutions are easy @DrJoGrady & @ucu Let’s sit down and talk without conditions or threats that damage everyone. It’s time to resolve this dispute. Our statement, with support from the following branch committees:
Image of a statement reading: "We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to: 1. Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions. 2. Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS – this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action.”

ALT Image of a statement reading: "We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to: 1. Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions. 2. Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS – this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action.”

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Shocking that @ucu are threatening to dock pay just for home working in Unite UCU’s dispute. Our branch @ULivUCU2 is donating £150 + our Admin’s strike pay to their fund, with more to follow. We urge all UCU branches to donate asap to support our UCU staff strikers.
Unite UCU@UniteUCU4 Sep 2025
🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 ✅ strike action: 76% ✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80% ✅ turnout: 77% ASOS begins today with @ucu threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages." Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all. #ReclaimUCU
Jo Grady calling Queen Mary management "vindictive" for making deductions from UCU members taking action short of a strike: Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary, said Queen Mary's senior management had "launched a vindictive attack" on its members, "punishing them for taking part in lawful industrial action" and "cementing its reputation as the worst university employer in the UK" She said: "It is wrong to do this at any time and all the more deplorable as staff struggle to make ends meet in a cost of living crisis."

ALT Jo Grady calling Queen Mary management "vindictive" for making deductions from UCU members taking action short of a strike: Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary, said Queen Mary's senior management had "launched a vindictive attack" on its members, "punishing them for taking part in lawful industrial action" and "cementing its reputation as the worst university employer in the UK" She said: "It is wrong to do this at any time and all the more deplorable as staff struggle to make ends meet in a cost of living crisis."

Screen shot of the article from The Guardian about Queen Mary ASOS deductions in which Jo Grady is quoted.

ALT Screen shot of the article from The Guardian about Queen Mary ASOS deductions in which Jo Grady is quoted.

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Neil Renic@NC_Renic31 May 2025
GPT-6 will have the intelligence to open a bakery instead of doing a PhD
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.@Davidlammy suspended trade talks with Israel due to “dark new phase in this conflict”. Suddenly concerned about displacement & starvation he condemned Israel minister Smotrich's “monstrous” call for “cleansing” Gaza But at same time the Gov had a v different take in court!🧵..
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“The people of Britain need to know that their country is complicit in this” #KeepTellingofGaza
Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn29 May 2025
The British government is complicit in one of the greatest crimes of our time. We will not give up until we have justice for the people of Palestine.
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1,300 MAT CEOs, paid average salaries of around £150,000, totals £195 million annually. Before academies there were 153 LA Directors of Education; there still are. This guy's £500k isn't the real scandal, academisation has been - and is - a colossal drain on Education finances.
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Steve B@75ThunderRoad21 May 2025
The Education Secretary is wrong about teaching "grit". 🧵 She's wrong in her perception that anxious children lack grit and she's wrong to think that those with mental health issues lack resilience. It's vital that we challenge this narrative. 1/
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A monolingual ideology - a fundamental part of British colonialism and a racist idea at its core - is rearing its ugly head for all to see, all thanks to Labour’s language requirements policies.
Taj Ali@Taj_Ali118 May 2025
English is the main language spoken in 87.6% of households in Pendle.
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teaching young children who live in poverty to show ‘grit’ is a classic, individualistic victim-blaming narrative which deflects attention away from structural injustices and pins responsibility on the most marginalised members of our society to undo their own oppression.
BBC Breakfast
@BBCBreakfast16 May 2025
'Life has its ups and downs and it's about how we properly equip them to navigate that world' Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told #BBCBreakfast why children will be taught the value of 'grit' to tackle a growing mental health crisis in schools bbc.co.uk/news/education
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Law doesn’t work Its words are muddled, erased in denial #KeepTellingofGaza
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Wil Hardman retweeted
Taj Ali@Taj_Ali113 May 2025
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Interesting that Starmer has big plans for people to learn English. Where? Who? How? FE colleges have been decimated over the last few years. Where can people go to get cheap or free English lessons, that are near to their homes, taught by experienced, well-trained teachers?
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This pathetic appeal to “common sense” is coercive, monolingual nationalism rooted in Britain’s colonial past. “Speak English” has long been weaponised in racist attacks. Language learning should be supported, not policed. This rhetoric is dangerous and deeply irresponsible.
Keir Starmer
@Keir_Starmer12 May 2025
If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That’s common sense. So we’re raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.
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