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One reason why UK universities are in such a dire state is because they're increasingly being captured by management consultants. This article explains why this is happening:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Are you a prospective student for @uniofyork? It is important that you know the uni has no plan for how to operate after hundreds of staff leave due to voluntary severance midway through semester one... yorkpress.co.uk/news/2438258… @ucu #ReclaimHigherEd
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Dear @ucu,
Is there a UK wide plan to protect our contracts? Custom and practice is 40/40/20 (T&R) and 60/20/20 (T&S). Some universities are going for 20% for research, or worse 10%. This destroys careers.
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Some of us are posting about this and trying to raise concerns, I’m an incoming rep from September
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But yet no word from @UoK_UCU on the matter. Their last post here was in August 2023. So nothing to say about the closure of subjects at Kent earlier this year or yet another VS scheme to cut the academic staff base . Anyone might think they’ve struck up a deal with management…
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'Figures show statistics, computing, physics & maths have risen in popularity & languages bouncing back'
'The number of French A-level candidates has grown by 8% over the last year, Spanish by 2.3% & German by 3.1%, the last albeit from a very low base'
theguardian.com/education/ar…
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The results are in 🚨
A huge 97% vote of no confidence in @UcuSurrey's Vice-Chancellor.
Axing of more than 140 jobs will not stand ✊
ucu.org.uk/article/13602/Uni…
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The British Academy has today published its manifesto, calling on the next government to urgently bolster the humanities and social sciences in higher education and research to fully address the UK's biggest challenges. Read the full manifesto below:
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news…
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Thanks for your support, Rosie!
Thank you @ChrisGPackham This will mean an awful lot to my constituents in Canterbury and others across East Kent 💚 If universities had proper support, then perhaps the pressure to sell land would be less enticing! (Sadly, women MPs not encouraged to join marches these days)...
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Keele has joined the long list of universities seeking cuts to staff. Of course they state this will have ‘no impact’ on student experience. What students don’t love having fewer, more overworked and stressed out staff? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmm…
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'A protest march organised by Save The Blean in partnership with Kent Wildlife Trust and CPRE, in response to the proposal to build 2,000 houses, shops and offices on a vast greenfield site owned by the University of Kent' whitstableviews.com/2024/05/…
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Portsmouth is choosing to prioritise new buildings over the staff that support students.
Now that staff have overwhelmingly voted no confidence in the vice-chancellor, the university must take stock & halt the cuts.
@UcuPortsmouth
ucu.org.uk/article/13579/Out…
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Nearly 300 staff face the sack at London South Bank University
These cuts would leave the institution a shell of its former self and totally hollow out the university's capacity to teach and support students
@LSBU @uculsbu
ucu.org.uk/article/13578/297…
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During the statutory consultation period, we received many letters of support, arguing compellingly that there is an important role for philosophy in a university. Many more signed a petition against the redundancies. We are immensely grateful to all our supporters.
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@UniKent has gone ahead with its plans to slash the humanities and social sciences, and the Philosophy Department will be axed in July. Our department has achieved a huge amount in its 59 years. We'll mark the occasion on 14 June - all welcome! kent.ac.uk/philosophy/celebr…
Sadly, @UniKent has announced plans to axe a number of smaller departments, including philosophy. We perform well on all measures, including student recruitment. But smaller subjects have less clout and are easiest to cut. Help us shout out our value to the uni! They need to hear
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Slashes to the university of Lincoln continue chng.it/cPn6vdNp2g via @UKChange :-(
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We are holding a workshop to celebrate the achievements of the @unikent philosophy department and to mark its demise. In person or online. All welcome!
jonwilliamson.uk/conferences…
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Wondering what the discussions about timing of all these announcements have been: do it after teaching term so student probably won't join in anger? But too deep into the summer risks Clearing recruitment? The management consultants must have had a bunch of fancy slides...
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