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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

Now on sale, at good booksellers (online and off) everywhere.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

It is very wearying to have to keep saying this, but so long as powerful people say the opposite, we need to repeat: taking down a statue is 'revising' history the same way that putting one up is. That kind of 'revision' goes on all the time. It's normal. It's healthy.

Will Hazell

@whazell

4 years

NEW: University minister Michelle Donelan at HEPI webinar says she doesn't support removing the statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oxford University. Says it is "quite short sighted". "We can't rewrite our history." Instead we must "remember and learn from it," she adds.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

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He's still in difficulties. This isn't King's College.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

3 years

Cambridge King's College dining room

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

For some reason, elite decisions without democratic participation to erect statues in the past are 'the people's preferences', but democratically elected local authorities' decisions to take down statues today are not.

Chris Renwick

@ChrisRenwick

4 years

This article is quite the thing

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

One of the most pernicious developments is the *requirement* for humanities academics to apply for grants they don't need or want and their appraisal on the basis of whether they win them.

Prof. Farah Mendlesohn

@effjayem

4 years

This was the one that got me. Many academics don’t need research funding. They need time. But a grant form can take as long to write as an article.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

2 years

How can universities propose to cut their employees' future pension accrual by up to *50%* and expect it *not* to 'affect the student experience'?

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Credit to @FT almost alone in pointing out the campaign government is waging to exclude dissentients from national museums and galleries and impose its own placeholders.

Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

3 years

Johnson is Canute, seeking to stem the tide of truth.

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Peter Mandler

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3 years

Have been reading @profdanhicks ' The Brutish Museums, a very powerful book in many ways. Here's a short thread provoked by it, but only, perhaps unforgivably, parallel to it - by a British historian.

The Brutish Museums

New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' – Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'– Economist W...

www.plutobooks.com

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

@KevinMKruse @hm_voss The best PhDs I've supervised have been those where neither the author nor the supervisor had a clue what was going on the first year or so - a sign they were charting new waters.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Honestly, of all the empty soundbites, 'We have to learn from our past, not rewrite it', is surely amongst the emptiest. Once you have learned from the past, don't you have to rewrite it?

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

This is pretty hilarious to anyone who knows the exceptionally conventional GCSE and A-level History specs (not to mention Michael Gove's KS3 'National Curriculum'). A little tincture of anything critical becomes 'Anti-British, Neo-Marxist'!

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

I love the way the Prime Minister falls back on the old claim that every development in free speech and democracy has 'come from' this country. When Michael Gove put that in his draft history curriculum, I had to point out that... (1/)

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

Coming soon (September).

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

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...Britain was one of the last (not one of the first) nations in Europe to achieve universal male suffrage. He took it out of the curriculum. (2/)

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

It would be good to get chapter-and-verse from government as to why we need more places in STEM courses since only a minority of STEM grads end up in STEM jobs and most end up in similar prof and managerial jobs as non-STEM grads.

John Morgan

@johncmorgan3

4 years

The first condition of the "restructuring regime" will require that universities orient themselves to STEM, nursing and teaching courses. There's also a ref to showing commitment to academic freedom and free speech.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 months

Ludmilla Jordanova gave a beautiful lecture this evening on the 300th anniversary of the Regius Professorship of History at Cambridge - a meditation on what an historian can be (many things), how reputations are made, what is remembered and what is forgotten. Video coming soon.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

What in heaven's name does graduate income have to do with world-class teaching quality?

Phil Baty

@Phil_Baty

6 years

Gyimah: subject-level TEF will expose degrees ‘lagging behind’ via @timeshighered

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

5 years

Rather more academics believe that if we need the Duchess of Sussex to raise our profile then we're in big trouble.

Times Higher Education

@timeshighered

5 years

Many academics believe the Duchess of Sussex will raise the profile of higher education in her new role

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

Credit to Durham. How about policy statements of a similar kind from lots of other universities?

USSbriefs

@USSbriefs

6 years

"Henceforth, ..., the University will only employ Teaching Fellows for a minimum period of 12 months”: fantastic news, & all power to @Durhamcasuals

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

5 years

I, fan of neither cat pictures nor social media memes, think this is possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen.

Rhys Thomas

@DrGetafix

5 years

Schrödinger's cat, demonstrating here that cats are both waves and particles.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

2 years

An exchange worth reading. To which one might add: if historians seem 'obsessed' with race in the present moment, some of that must be due to the way in which race was largely evacuated from the teaching of history in previous generations. Certainly in my lifetime.

Alan Lester

@aljhlester

2 years

I have submitted my rejoinder to Robert Tombs' comments on my essay, The British Empire & Race. It has not yet been posted on the @History_Reclaim website, but the *full* exchange can now be accessed here: @Sathnam @corinne_fowler

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

7 years

Who are these full-time teaching staff who are going to be providing 'same teaching, quality and content' without doing any research, scholarship or course design over the summer?

Department for Education

@educationgovuk

7 years

Students could be left over £25,000 better off by choosing an accelerated degree instead of a traditional three-year course, according to new proposals out today. Same teaching, quality and course content, but delivered over a shorter two-year timespan:

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

A shame that Trinity couldn't show the same solidarity with its fellow academics over pensions.

A Cambridge Diary

@acambridgediary

4 years

Tonight the Wren Library @TrinCollCam turned blue in support of NHS staff and key workers. #lightitblue #makeitblue #NHS #ClapForOurCarers #clapforkeyworkers .

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

2 years

This is how 'culture war' works, but not how academia works. I have literally never been on a hiring committee which hired someone who 'placed third after the interviews', on any basis, least of all race or gender.

Jim Dickinson

@jim_dickinson

2 years

This is an actual extract from an actual report on free speech in universities from an actual think tank

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

One part of the culture war I am finding genuinely bizarre is how one side defines what the other side thinks and then accuses it of hypocrisy on that basis.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Excellent roundup of the right-wing campaign against the National Trust, by a journalist who cites his sources.

Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

3 years

How is it possible for journalists to make @nationaltrust appear a threat to the British way of life? By laying of fabrication on fabrication, distortion on distortion. By taking today's exaggeration and turning it into tomorrow's matter of record.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

But it can't be true. Education S.C. flagged up these concerns on 11 July and asked for details of algorithm which Ofqual withheld until 21 July. Did he not even read the S.C. report?

Sam Freedman

@Samfr

4 years

If that's true from Williamson it's astonishing. Even in a normal year we saw the data a few days before release. How on earth did they not ask to see it?!

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

5 years

Are we really supposed to pay good money to hear these people tell us how brave they are?

Advance HE

@AdvanceHE

5 years

In a turbulent HE environment it takes bravery to lead. Hear how other leaders are facing up to current sector challenges at #LeaderSum19 on 5 June. To celebrate the launch of our new membership we’re offering over 50% off our normal booking rate.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

7 years

When will Telegraph do survey of political views of FTSE 100 CEOs and call for gender, class, race *and* ideological diversity therein?

Steve Jones

@StevenJones_MCR

7 years

80% of lecturers left-wing; unis bizarrely urged to "tackle ideological diversity as they do gender, class + race"

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

Hard to provide research-led teaching if you aren't funded to do research...

Alex Bamji

@alexbamji

6 years

We're looking for a Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @LeedsUniHistory . Fixed term - 9 months from 1.9.18. Applications close 2.5.18. Details here! #twitterstorians #ecrchat #earlymodern #histmed

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

5 years

Arts education used to be one of the glories of British schools. How have we allowed ourselves to get into a situation where we discourage it because it leads to graduate salaries that just happen not to hit the thresholds we've artificially built into our funding regime?

Tes

@tes

5 years

'Arts subjects aren’t valued by society – we’re telling students that the arts may not help them achieve their long-term goals, when in fact, the reverse is true'

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

2 years

Maybe instead of leaks and gossip about government’s plans for ‘model’ history curriculum, we could have openness and transparency about who is composing it? And some guarantee of consulting full range of school and scholarly expertise?

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

7 years

Though once again it's necessary to point out how unfair 10-month lectureships are for early-career researchers. Shouldn't be standard.

Emilie K. M. Murphy

@emilieKMmurphy

7 years

Not 1, not 2, but 3 x 10 month history lectureships going @YorkHistoryDept for next year incl #earlymodern science

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

@hannahrosewoods Similarly a lot of the Confederate statues actually date from the 1920s when Southern conservatives were anxious about their own 'decline'.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

One a year is a lot for an historian, I'd say, especially if you're also working on a book.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

What possible justification can there by for opening a new history programme, hiring away staff (in some cases from secure jobs) on 'permanent' contracts, and then dumping them 4 years later? Unbelievable level of short-termism.

UCU

@ucu

3 years

UCU's petition against the closure of Aston University's history, English and translation department now has over 4,000 signatures. Sign the petition here: @AstonUCU @DrJoGrady

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

7 years

This man went to university for 3 years and thinks it was about 'finding out information' and bluffing. Speak for yourself.

The Spectator

@spectator

7 years

Back in the days when finding out information took ages, three-year university courses made sense. Not now.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

2 years

Charles Moore in the Spectator says I tell Cam alumni that they must believe grammar schools made little contribution to social mobility because sociologists think that. No, I tell them they should believe it because sociologists study millions of people in a systematic way.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

7 years

Released from purdah, delighted to announce ESRC funded project on Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945 (1/2).

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

It's not objectionable, it's imperative. It has expanded my horizons and filled a gap in my understanding that I now see was preposterous. History is always going to be selective - there's too much to know - but some selections which used to look sensible now look bizarre.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Really, though, we have to stop wasting our weekends 'replying' to the culture-war kites flown in the Telegraph, which aren't aimed at us, and don't even need to make any sense. By 'we', I mean 'I'.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

5 years

@wmarybeard There is actually a lot of research on this - we don't have to rely on anecdote. In our own university, as you know, independently educated students with the same grades as state educated students do less well in their degree overall.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

I know this is just a Trumpian strategy to stir up a divisive culture war, and I'm reluctant to get sucked into the game, but it's still worth pointing out how slippery the 'historical' language being used here. 'The people' vs 'cultural committees'.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

This report hasn't got the attention it deserves: No 10 policy adviser charts ballooning of HE central management and recommends devolution back to departments.

John Morgan

@johncmorgan3

3 years

The way universities are run "requires some quite urgent attention" - so says @policyatkings report co-authored by Alison Wolf ( @XXFactorFacts ) after finding 60% growth in manager/professional roles in 12 years, 80% growth in teaching-only staff.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

Why does @BBCNews coverage of school lunches revolve around 'hot' PMQs and trading of blows in Parliament, rather than some basic investigative reporting: who is responsible, what is typical, who profits, how to address? 'Mission to inform'.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

I'm not sure I see the difference between 0.9 1 year and a 10 month contract given that assuredly the 0.9 will be doing 1.0 FTE worth of work. Come on, Leicester, pony up the extra £3-4k to make this a proper but still temporary job.

Dr Katherine Weikert

@kateweikert

6 years

1 year, 0.9 post specialising in Anglo-Saxon England pre-900: Lecturer in Early Medieval History at University of Leicester #jobsacuk

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Quite apart from the post's reasonable point about the media...how does @Peston imagine universities are/should be funded? If unis have to make 'chunky fee refund' while still teaching, who makes up difference?

James Sumner

@JamesBSumner

3 years

If I was the political editor of ITV News, and I noticed I had formed my picture of a national issue on the basis of what I know about my pal's daughter, I'd probably say "Damn it: I appear to be terrible at journalism. I must resign immediately. Please ignore my interpretation."

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

Appears he means James Delingpole, who is the best pollster in Britain the way I am the best poker-player in Bulgaria.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

“We believe these people are thieves. The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election. Best pollster in Britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election, that it’s impossible to imagine that Biden outran Obama in some of these states.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

But let's not tell the history of the world *through* British history - Ireland, India, Africa deserve their own histories, not only when impinged upon by slavers, soldiers, traders.

David Lammy

@DavidLammy

6 years

An honest telling of British history in our schools is vital if we are to understand eachother today. That means slavery, colonialism and Empire, as well as the Henrys and Hitler. Black history is British history.

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Peter Mandler

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3 years

I don't think all modern British historians need to be African historians, and I don't think metropole and empire are the same place. But they are entangled in complicated ways and anyone worth their salt needs to understand that, fully and properly.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

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If you made a list of all the things people say *MUST* be taught in schools, you would easily fill a full secondary school week with history alone, when in fact most secondaries are maybe teaching history 2 hours a week.

Prof Nisreen Alwan 🌻

@Dr2NisreenAlwan

1 year

Is the Sykes-Picot agreement taught in UK schools? I doubt it.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

It's easy to get frustrated by the quality of commentary about the 'statue wars', but I always relax when I see David Olusoga's face on TV, because I know he will raise the level of discourse.

Helen Snelson

@SnelsonH

4 years

The ‘statue wars’ must not distract us from a reckoning with racism | David Olusoga | Global | The Guardian

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

7 months

Why do we have to wait for a popular TV series to light a fire under ministers to settle the postmasters' claims which have been festering for years and years? Does Parliament no longer function? Do Opposition and backbench MPs not feel this is their duty? (Rhetorical qs only.)

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

7 years

Follow this thread to the end - a very nice piece of fact-checking, of which apparently neither a leading newspaper nor one of its leading columnists is capable.

Ben Rosamond

@BenRosamond1

7 years

1.This dreadfully ill-informed piece is full of wild assertions – none more glaring than this: ‘a recent report found that some humanities students interact with teachers for just 26 hours in three years.’

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 months

After 22 years we closed up shop on Cambridge's Modern Cultural History seminar last night (maybe to return once the new teaching configuration is worked out in a few years' time): in great style with ambitious talks on 'drag and kink' by Ruby Daily and Jacob Bloomfield... (1/2)

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

What does this even mean - this idea that one shouldn't 'question the historical reputation' of historic properties? One shouldn't learn new things about them? One should only learn/teach 'good' things? (1/)

Christopher Hope📝

@christopherhope

4 years

Do National Trust members agree with today’s leader in the Daily Telegraph? “The National Trust is in danger of becoming an exemplar of an institution that forgets what is for...”

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Peter Mandler

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3 years

I spend a good deal of my time as a history teacher steering 18 year olds away from this view, that we study history to 'learn lessons', 'not repeating those mistakes', 'so that we don't repeat those actions [huh?] in the future'.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

3 years

🗣️ ‘The so called decolonisation of the curriculum is, in effect, censoring our history’ 🤔 Do you agree? 🎙️ Listen to universities minister @michelledonelan in conversation with @christopherhope on @chopperspodcast :

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

1 year

I wonder if Lee Anderson has considered whether his grandad was for or against welcoming Jewish refugees to Britain fleeing Nazi genocide. If he did he might find the answer - either way - disconcerting.

Lee Anderson MP

@LeeAndersonMP_

1 year

In 1941 my grandad left the pit, put on an army uniform & went to fight the Nazis. He did not run away & leave my grandma and her children. He put his life on the line for his family and King & Country. I welcome this news from Rishi and so would my grandad ❤

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Peter Mandler

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6 years

Our universities are mostly pretty unaccountable, but they're charities and they *say* they are transparent, so let's try to hold them to account here. Who said what to the @UniversitiesUK Sep 2017 consultation? Why would they not want to say now?

etymologic

@etymologic

6 years

MISSING: 30+ mysterious " #USS employers" that responded to the Sep 2017 @UniversitiesUK survey on pension scheme risk. Not Universities, nor even Oxbridge colleges - but " #USS employers". Who might they be? Help me seek them out 👇 (Thread)

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Peter Mandler

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3 years

Fans of university rankings have a lot to answer for. Universities now pay top dollar for 'strategists' who (as Liverpool recently admitted) among other tasks manipulate data (which they're unwilling to share with their staff) to produce optimal rankings results.

Marc Spooner

@drmarcspooner

3 years

What skill set is best you think? Magician, Propaganda specialist, exterior design aestheticist, creative fiction writer, social media influencer, public relations fixer, scholar whip, student experience enhancer, campus booster enthusiast, deviant statistician, table maker?

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Peter Mandler

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8 months

Surprised that yesterday’s news coverage focused so much on speculation about labour market implications and so little on the shocking fact that now only wealthier British citizens can marry a non-citizen and live with them in the UK.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

The community of historians is not going to let this drop, and all the major professional organizations I know are currently meeting with exam boards and also thinking about how to generate first-rate resources for the national curriculum.

Guardian Education

@GuardianEdu

4 years

Ministers taking 'way too long' to bring black history into curriculum

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

2 years

SAVE THE DATE - Susan Pedersen's Leverhulme Lectures 'Balfours in Love and Trouble: Living Sexual and Political Change at the Fin de Siecle', St. John's College, Cambridge, 3, 10 and 16 May, 5pm. @CamHistory @CamModHist

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Peter Mandler

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6 years

It's biased by a whole slew of factors: subject mix, intake (by attainment or social background), local labour markets. Graduate salaries are just *not* a measure of teaching quality, full stop. They *are* a measure of ability to pay off loans, what govt seems to care about.

Beverley Oliver

@BevOliver2022

6 years

Judging teaching excellence of a university based on graduate salaries is biased if a high proportion of yr grads are not highly paid eg nurses and teachers - may be brilliantly taught but not high salaries #TeachingEx

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Peter Mandler

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4 years

And needless to say statues are a very particular and relatively small portion of 'history', or even of 'heritage'. They make a statement about present-day values - whom we (some of us) admire and why. As we change, we can move statues into museums, to tell about the past.

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Peter Mandler

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4 years

Between 2020 and 2070 pandemics closed Oxford colleges 22 times. By 2043 the only surviving fellow of St. John's, one Williame Whyte, was holding all seventeen of the college's statutory offices.

William Whyte

@william_whyte

4 years

Between 1507-57 pestilence closed Oxford colleges 22 times. By 1563, Exeter College was so impoverished that any fellow could apply for 2 years unpaid leave. In other words, they were furloughed until resources recovered.

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Peter Mandler

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3 years

That is, of course, 'revising' history - but I can't imagine any other way of proceeding.

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Peter Mandler

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9 months

For those of you who missed David Cannadine's 1st anniversary lecture in Cambridge - celebrating 100 years of the Historical Journal and giving as context the history of history publishing over the last 100 years - a video of the lecture is now online at .

Anniversary Lectures: Who, How and What For? Publishing History in...

Professor Sir David Cannadine (Princeton) delivered a lecture on 17 October 2023 to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Historical Journal. This was ...

www.youtube.com

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Peter Mandler

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It's rather shaming that according to Hansard there has been no mention in Parliament of the British Library since mid-September, and then it was just to remind us that we can find British standards there and many other places.

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Peter Mandler

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3 years

Seriously, more voices need to be raised against government's attempts to nobble arm's length bodies. (And even charities - who have no obligation to obey ministers' 'summons'. Perhaps have an obligation to ignore them.)

Christopher Hope📝

@christopherhope

3 years

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has also summoned 25 of the UK's biggest heritage bodies and charities to a summit on Feb 23 where they will be told "to defend our culture and history from the noisy minority of activists constantly trying to do Britain down”.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

Congratulations to modern historians Khaled Fahmy, Susan Pedersen, Penny Summerfield and Clair Wills, elected fellows of the British Academy.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

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David Cannadine, Michael Bentley and Ludmilla Jordanova's lectures marking the anniversaries of Cambridge's Tripos, Historical Journal and Regius Professorship, now all available at .

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Peter Mandler

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3 years

Even under the watered down version of the Haldane Principle in the 2017 Act, ministers have no power to make instructions about individual research grants.

Dan Hicks

@profdanhicks

3 years

how, precisely, this is going to work — and what does this announcement about a Leicester University research project mean for academic freedom?

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Peter Mandler

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5 years

Couldn't it be that humanities academics oppose citation metrics not because they are 'attached to the REF' but because citation metrics work very poorly in the humanities, where citation is far more dispersed and much longer-term?

John Gill

@JG_THE

5 years

"The REF delivers data slowly and infrequently, at great expense and with huge disruption, resulting in rankings very similar but, arguably, inferior to those obtained simply and cheaply using methods that don’t disrupt anyone." via @timeshighered

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Peter Mandler

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I now see how ridiculous it was that *no-one* who taught me British history in the '70s and '80s ever even mentioned the looting of Benin - and not many were even interested in the 'Scramble for Africa'.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

Not always clear how or whether to respond to obvious attempts to stoke up a culture war (vs 'elitist bourgeois liberals' by elitist bourgeois conservatives).

Sunder Katwala

@sundersays

4 years

Telegraph letter from 28 Conservatives, challenging the idea of portraying "multiple perspectives on history"

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

2 years

'National heroes like Isaac Newton, Francis Drake and William Gladstone are cancelled, erased from history' - Michelle Donelan. Maybe, rather, *more of* Gladstone is being revealed, many dimensions rather than only those that qualify for 'national heroism'.

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Peter Mandler

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4 years

They were offered the help of the Royal Statistical Society to assess these potential effects, but would only take it in return for 5 year NDA (which no academic should sign), so instead of getting help to anticipate effects they get shelled for not anticipating them - deservedly

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Notable thread. One feature I would pick out is managers overruling academics on academic matters, leading to bad product and bad market outcomes.

Jonathan Mills

@Muinchille

3 years

What exactly happened at @uniofleicester ? The answers relate mostly to governance failure, leading to poor management choices, leading to declining cash flows, whilst high risk, leveraged projects were committed to. Thread 👇

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

2 years

'Writing Biography as History': with Deborah Cohen, Stefan Collini, Julia Laite, chaired by Susan Pedersen. All welcome, no need to register, come along if you are in Cambridge on 9 July, 11am, @CaiusCollege , @NYCTC_History

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

Take a real historical look at who decided to erect statues to the slaver Colston and the slaver and torturer Picton, preferring to highlight their philanthropic and military roles, rather than cloaking these real historical events in a present-minded language of 'the people'.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Let's be clear - many heritage buildings may today be sources of 'joy and celebration', suitable for 'a family day out', but they weren't always *built* for that purpose. If you visit a stately home, you want to enjoy it but also learn about its original functions and purposes.

Seán William Gannon

@swgannon

3 years

Accounts of British history must 'not start from a position of guilt and shame or a denigration of this country's past'.🤦‍♂️ Sunday Telegraph.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

'Dead-end courses' defined purely in terms of labour-market outcomes (without evidence about the connection anyway). This has become so routine from government that we let it go by on the nod. Let's not.

Department for Education

@educationgovuk

3 years

“I want to end the dominance of the three-year bachelor’s degree in higher education.” – Education Secretary responds to Sir Michael Barber’s review into Digital Learning.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 months

THIS is the way to address simplistic claims about the imperial/colonial contribution to British economic growth - but not easy to convey with a social media thread. Read some of the works he cites before you opine!

Alan Lester

@aljhlester

3 months

1/6. Now the Institute of Economic Affairs, the right wing think tank that understood economic affairs so well that it inspired Liz Truss’ disastrous mini-budget, is getting in on the act of supporting @KemiBadenoch ’s historical denialism. Let’s look at the ‘argument’ here. It

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

A lot of government policy lately seems aimed at suspending the 'Robbins Principle' - that everyone qualified and willing should have an HE place - without saying so.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

I've got this on cut-and-paste now for next time someone expresses outrage to me about anything done by Cambridge.

Alex Selby-Boothroyd

@AlexSelbyB

4 years

Today's magic words are "rest assured I’ve conveyed the strength of local feeling to relevant colleagues"

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

@TimHitchcock 1) But so much humanities research doesn't need grant support; 2) I would dispute that the grant process is 'the most rigorous form of peer review'; 3) Why use grant income as a proxy for peer review when you can use peer review (e.g. in promotion decisions)?

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

My mother, Jean Mandler. I've been sorting through her papers and filling in gaps in her life story (future researchers: the papers are already mostly deposited at the Archives of the History of Psychology in Akron, Ohio). (1/)

Loleen Berdahl

@loleen_berdahl

6 years

Please name a female academic (current, retired, or deceased; well-known, or unknown; any discipline; any country) whose story inspires you, and explain why you find her inspirational. (I am in the mood for inspirational stories.)

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

Why is the @BBC style to apply 'Dr' to 'scientific doctors' and not those whose doctorates are in non-scientific subjects?

Higher Education Policy Institute

@HEPI_news

6 years

Interesting piece on the use of academic titles:

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

Too easy to credentialize yourself nowadays with the working-class bona fides of your *grandparents*. Unless you are the Duke of Devonshire, pretty much everyone has some working-class grandparents, so rapid and transformative has been social change in the last century.

Jack Nicklaus

@jacknicklaus

4 years

Get out and vote. I did!

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Check out this new seminar series on the history of universities, starting with @william_whyte on their material histories and a panel on slavery and the universities, both in June.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

And then tell me why it is less legitimate now to draw attention to the enslavement and torture.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

Cambridge colleges have been denying this but UUK confirms.

Josephine Cumbo

@JosephineCumbo

6 years

@PeterMandler1 @MikeOtsuka UUK has just confirmed to me that its Feb 20 statement "Oxbridge colleges account for one third of the total wanting less risk" – related to the Sept 2017 survey. #USS

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

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2nd Cambridge History Faculty Anniversary Lecture - Michael Bentley on 'The Peculiarities of Cambridge History: Comparative Thoughts on the Historical Tripos', marking 150th anniversary of the Tripos. All welcome, Peterhouse Theatre, Tuesday 30 January, 5pm, reception to follow.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

4 years

I know in saying so I show myself to be on the wrong platform, but just to give warning that when someone tells me they are 'excited' to announce something all my higher cognitive functions shut down. (Even quicker if they are 'humbled'.)

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

Every single one of these, state and independent, is highly selective. If you take only top GCSE performers, surely you ought to be getting top A-level results? Some probably adding more value than others, but this kind of table tells you zero about that.

Fraser Nelson

@FraserNelson

3 years

The Oxbridge files: offers to Oxford and Cambridge, by school. Full list:

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

3 years

A lot of Twitter is: Sure, you're in my 50% of the political spectrum. But are you in my 10%? Sure, you're in my 10%. But are you in my 1%? Sure, you're in my 1%, but honestly I'm not sure I even agree with my own position any longer, so yah boo sucks.

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

6 years

How about the 'very old paradigm' - evaluate by reading the work and seeing if it makes sense/adds anything/changes your thinking.

Phil Baty

@Phil_Baty

6 years

Citations are the “old paradigm” for research evaluation, we hear at the #YoungUni summit. Here is the future...

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Peter Mandler

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2 years

Also, I get why universities have to be seen to be standing up for 'the student experience' but on what grounds can they also cut their employees' current pay based on their assessment of how 'the student experience' is being damaged by legal industrial action?

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Peter Mandler

@PeterMandler1

5 years

Having just gone through (gratefully) the exhaustive, iterative process that editing at Past & Present entails, I am primed particularly right now to endorse this excellent post. Publication in the humanities is labour-intensive! And adds significantly to quality.

Jørgen Carling

@jorgencarling

5 years

The work of journal editors is often made invisible in debates about #openaccess , #plan_s and the cost of publishing. Here’s an intro to what editors do.

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