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Plashing Vole

@PlashingVole

5 years

Sentient post-its flee yet another brainstorming away day.

ABC News

@ABC

5 years

CATCH OF THE DAY: Stunning drone footage follows school of Cownose Rays swimming in crystal clear waters off the Australian coast.

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8 years

Top fascist-trolling by this 1930s vicar:

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5 years

£10.55 per hour, PhD required. How is the doctor meant to fund living in central London or commuting to the British Library on this salary?

University English

@UnivEnglish

5 years

Full time 9 month Post-doctoral Internship - Medieval Manuscripts at British Library #jobsacuk

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3 years

One advantage of the Oxford vaccine is you don’t need a second jab: it gets automatically upgraded to an MA.

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6 years

We hired a part-time Lecturer recently. We were shocked by how much every applicant had published while never having had a full-time or permanent post. An army of the exploited.

Becca Harrison

@BeccaEHarrison

6 years

My. PhD. Research. Had. To. Be. World. Leading. To. Get. An. Entry. Level. Job.

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2 years

Look at all these Tory ministers withdrawing their labour to get a desired result. They must have learned it from watching @RMTunion ’s Mick Lynch last week. Striking works, lads!

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5 years

Even Boris Johnson isn’t voting for Boris Johnson.

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2 months

Michelle Donelan gone: anyone working at a university will be celebrating that one.

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5 years

The CEO of the British Library (private school, Oxford, obvs) doesn’t have a PhD. He’s paid c. £170,000. The £7 sandwich in the café holds no fears for him.

Plashing Vole

@PlashingVole

5 years

£10.55 per hour, PhD required. How is the doctor meant to fund living in central London or commuting to the British Library on this salary?

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4 years

I see my awful MP’s constituency office has been redecorated.

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5 years

I’d just like to point out to any potential philanthropists out there that there are quite a few universities - like mine - that would like to offer Oxford-level resources to thousands of students from rather less privileged backgrounds.

The Guardian

@guardian

5 years

Oxford to receive biggest single donation 'since the Renaissance'

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7 years

Tomorrow: why can’t young people weave jute? Why have their winnowing skills atrophied so badly?

BBC Radio 4 Today

@BBCr4today

7 years

Can you imagine a world where people don't know how to tune a radio? Well you can stop imagining... @DavidSillitoBBC #r4today

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6 years

My UG students: 80%+ female. My PhD students: all female. My colleagues: roughly evenly-divided. My boss: male. His boss: male. His boss’s boss: male. His boss’s boss’s boss: male. #iwd2018

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6 years

‘I was alright at English but didn’t see the point of reading a book then saying what you thought it meant’. My mam, casually dismissing my life’s work, last night.

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4 years

@RebeccaFront George Osborne acquired a field on which the taxpayer paid the mortgage - he made a huge profit when he sold it. But that’s somehow different.

George Osborne's mortgage on paddock paid by taxpayers

Property sold by chancellor for £1m included land that did not feature in parliamentary inquiry into Osborne's expenses

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

I teach mostly working-class students with a high BME proportion in an unfashionable university in a economically depressed area. Apparently their low salaries will be my fault.

Mike Pitts

@pittsmike

6 years

Minister Sam Gyimah says graduate pay to rate degree quality and value. But degrees make minds not money. Top 3 #Archaeology world rankings are all in UK. But archaeology is not highly paid: CIfA senior pay guide is £36,000-40,000. Bye bye archaeology

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I’m entirely in sympathy with Braverman etc calling for a return to native traditions. My manifesto: 1. Proto-Celtic as the official language. 2. All churches to be torn down and Druidic oak groves grown in their place. 3. Political leaders strangled annually for a good harvest

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6 months

And this, kids, is why I think Prevent should be abolished. University staff are amongst those legally required to inform on anyone showing signs of such beliefs. How can we discuss culture, history and science openly under these conditions?

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5 years

Wow: Edinburgh University should be ashamed. Nobody should apply for this job.

Anna Reynolds

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5 years

So this 0.5 teaching contract doesn’t pull its punches: ‘pay suspended during the months of July and August 2020 when no work will be available.’ 😕

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6 years

I would describe University workload allocation modules as fraudulent - HEIs rely on huge amounts of unacknowledged labour at all levels. Not just academic staff either.

Jess Cox

@JessJCox

6 years

BBC News - Lecturer's widow hits out at Cardiff University workload

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1 year

I assume The airport is O’Hare

Jemma Wilson

@JemWilson84

1 year

🚨I AM AT THE AIRPORT AND THERE IS A GIANT RABBIT IN A STROLLER I REPEAT A GIANT RABBIT IN A STROLLER🚨

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2 years

University: we’re closing 148 courses making entire ranges of subject inaccessible to our working-class, mature, parent and BIPOC intake many of whom can’t go elsewhere. Also university: come to our two-day Inclusivity Conference.

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6 years

Matt Hancock’s a breath of fresh air. Private school, PPE at Oxford, Economics at Cambridge, climate change denier and data thief.

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4 years

Universities didn’t saddle students with debt. Governments did.

Minister lambasts English universities for letting down students

Speech by Michelle Donelan signals a rebalancing of tertiary education away from HE sector

www.theguardian.com

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7 years

Congratulations to Jo Johnson (Oxford) for his efforts in widening participation by appointing white male Oxford friend and Lord’s son Toby Young to the #OfS board.

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4 years

Said goodbye to my final Erasmus students today. They’ve added so much over the years and now the door has slammed shut. What a stupid country.

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7 years

#gifusourpensions UniversitiesUK: ‘we’ll halve their pensions in the fine print. Easy’. Staff: ‘footnotes are the seas in which we sail’.

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2 years

Overheard on the train tonight: ‘I’m paying over £1000 per module and they expect me to learn it myself’. Was tempted to offer to learn it for her for £500.

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5 years

Having marked a lot of Hamlet essays and then resubmitted essays, this is now the first slide for next year’s lecture.

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4 years

The richest universities are firing their poorest employees. Classy.

Hundreds of university staff to be made redundant due to coronavirus

Lecturers, researchers and support staff with insecure contracts at three universities have lost their jobs

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

Diane Abbott must be superhuman. Imagine coping with political life, plus all that racist abuse, and not drinking your gin neat.

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6 months

Congratulations to these two fine academics and @ucu for exposing one of Britain’s richest university’s systematic, decades-long exploitation of precarious staff. Hopefully lots of VCs are feeling very nervous.

Academics win claim against Oxford University over ‘sham contracts’

Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly claimed they were denied important workplace rights for 15 years

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Our work PCs are so old that we can’t open PDFs. The idea we’re up to streaming live lectures into students’ homes is delightfully optimistic.

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6 years

Name a dictatorship you wouldn’t have opened a campus in.

Times Higher Education

@timeshighered

6 years

If you could ask a v-c anything what would it be? Tweet us using #VCquestiontime . @JG_THE will pick the best of the bunch to ask our panel of v-cs at #THElive on Thursday

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4 years

Magnificent VC’s newsletter today. 1. Thanks for working so hard and doing face-to-face teaching. 2. Redundancy news coming soon! 3. How’s your mental health? #HigherEd

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7 years

Here’s a tip for my management: if you’re offering ‘resilience’ training for work-based stress, perhaps you should take a look at the organisation instead.

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11 months

Friend of mine at a Russell Group university lost 50% pay for taking part in the MAB last month: ‘partial performance’. The same university has cheerfully signed off his workload at 153% of his contracted hours.

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1 year

@rbrooks45 @BenHouchen Houchen doesn’t have the benefit of parliamentary privilege and has just accused an MP of deliberately lying. I hope a libel trial follows.

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5 years

@Ciara87C Friend with a mass of long grey hair went to FCUM v Hednesford Town. As he crossed in front of the stand a cry went up: ‘What news from Nazareth?’ Cue applause from the entire crowd.

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2 years

As intimidated as a Black girl stripped naked by police in school while menstruating? As intimidated as a Brazilian plumber shot dead by her team for looking suspiciously foreign? Spare me.

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6 years

It takes a special sort of evil genius to deliberately screw down pay on socially useful jobs then punish universities for inspiring students to want to do them anyway.

Mike Pitts

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6 years

Minister Sam Gyimah says graduate pay to rate degree quality and value. But degrees make minds not money. Top 3 #Archaeology world rankings are all in UK. But archaeology is not highly paid: CIfA senior pay guide is £36,000-40,000. Bye bye archaeology

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3 years

Still needs glasses even though he has eyes.

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3 years

Why we strike:

‘My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent

Higher education is one of the most casualised sectors of the UK economy, and for many it means a struggle to get by

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Let’s not forget that universities are being ranked by graduates’ salaries, so you sink down the league table if your students devote their lives to unlucrative life-saving - nursing, social care, social work etc - instead of hedge funding.

Deirdre Duffy

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As programme lead for a health and social care degree at one of the largest HE institutions in the UK, reminder that to date the conversation of 'low value degrees' has included health and social care.

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7 years

19. That’s all folks: a rigged, biased, dishonest process designed to make the Office for Students a patsy devoid of critical views.

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4 years

Proposal: the vice-chancellor of every university that confines its students to halls should move into one of those blocks for the duration.

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2 years

The students are starting to hear about the @ucu national strike. Very heartening to hear the words ‘how can we join in?’

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@PlashingVole

6 years

I miss the mature students we used to have in large numbers. They added so much in terms of perspective and experience.

Tracey Thorn

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6 years

This week's @NewStatesman column : going to open days with our youngest made me want to go back to university

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9 months

Very unfair of Henry to liken molluscs to Tories. Molluscs filter the shit out of water; Tories put it in.

HENRY MORRIS

@mrhenrymorris

9 months

NEW: The Papua New Guinea Courier's UK correspondent reflects on the Safety of Rwanda bill - what a bill to die on.

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6 years

It ill-behoves the THES to run pieces telling students they’re lazy by Raj Persaud, whom the GMC suspended for plagiarism.

Times Higher Education

@timeshighered

6 years

Today’s students are increasingly narcissistic and entitled. We must convince them of the merit of hard work, say @DrRajPersaud and @ProfAdrianFurnh

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3 years

Truly magnificent. The entire British establishment in 20 syllables.

James Greig

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3 years

This heading/ sub-heading combo is sooooo funny

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8 years

If you now have a #UKIP AM, write to them only in Welsh. Especially Neil Hamilton.

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3 years

My mother’s kittens. One is nicknamed Banquo because it appears silently at mealtimes with an accusing expression.

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2 years

How’s this for classy? Our HR department, which claims it’s too stretched to cope with serious workplace issues, is chasing people they’ve made redundant for odd days of holiday allowance they say have been overclaimed, going back years.

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5 years

Excellent news. Let’s hope the reflection involves conversations with ECRs.

British Library

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5 years

@PlashingVole Thank you for your comments. The Library has listened and has removed the advert for the time being, to take time to reflect.

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2 months

Good to see the ⁦ @guardian ⁩ nailing the corruption of university managements’ values and academics’ resistance here.

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1 month

‘Will begin’? Has the head of Universities UK not noticed that this has been going on for a decade or more? Or does she mean ‘will begin at the nice universities her friends kids go to’?

branwen jeffreys

@branwenjeffreys

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On @BBCr4today @viviennestern says the financial pressures in universities will begin to be visible to students through fewer options, merged courses and fewer academic staff. She says certainty over international recruitment, increases in fees & direct govt funding all needed

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To add to @gabyhinsliff ’s piece, it’s not just the young who are affected. All my students, teen or mature, have jobs, often full time. Many of them are parents. When we close a course they can’t go somewhere else - their talent and social contribution is entirely lost.

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4 years

So who’d like to see Jacob Rees-Mogg’s reply to a constituent on the subject of Dominic Cummings?

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2 years

How is it legal to declare a whole subject team’s work redundant (I.e. it doesn’t need doing any more) then advertise a post doing exactly that work? (Everyone got fired before the managerial galaxy brains realised that the 2nd/3rd year students still needed teaching)

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1 year

Rightly damning House of Lords report on the Office for Students: hostile to students and universities; politically biased; not competent as a regulator.

Wonkhe

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1 year

NEW on Wonkhe: Lord Hollick presents the findings of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators inquiry into the work of the Office for Students. @HLIndustryCom

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2 years

Faculty meeting headline: ‘drinks and celebrations for REF; if not enough of you resign, compulsory redundancies are next’.

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2 years

Delighted to see the university’s internal newsletter celebrate 25 years of the computational linguistics research group scheduled for closure in two weeks’ time, with multiple redundancies. Magnificent work all round.

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7 years

I loved @BBCNewsnight having two monolingual anglophones discuss Welsh. Tonight: two emus question the point of flight.

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1 year

No crack-down on rip-off utilities providers, supermarkets, banks or any of the other vampires preying upon us I notice.

Andy Westwood

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1 year

There’s now a graphic…

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2 years

150+ courses closed, hundreds of redundancies…and my VC says there’s no legal requirement to consult with unions because it’s not ‘structural change’. One bad faith move after another from our management.

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5 years

@DarrenJohnson66 @michaelglasper Arthur: remain Ford: remain Zaphod: Leave, him in charge. Fenchurch: remain Vogons: Leave with extreme violence Marvin: oh god what’s the point.

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4 years

Horrific news about Humanities at Gloucestershire Uni. 2 major restructures in 3 years; 5 Heads of School in 5 years; 67% of fee income goes to the management echelon - now they’re firing people THEN a ‘review’ of humanities’ viability. Support @ucuglos

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1 year

Any university thinking of hiring god-knows-who to mark student work might be well-advised to look up what happened when QMUL tried it.

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6 years

That’s right kids: less than half of university academic staff are in a secure job. This in a time when universities have more money than ever.

USSbriefs

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6 years

It's "university rankings season" apparently. Want to see the % of academic staff on insecure contracts at your university (using HESA data 2016-7)? Use the handy "Precarious contracts in HE - institutional snapshot" page from @UCU #YesUniCan #HEUnited

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5 years

Replace ‘less’ with ‘fewer’.

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6 years

Turns out I did win something after all: Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s award. Thanks so much to my students.

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5 months

Genuinely feel for Simon Case: undercover agent. A mere 20 years of cigars and brandy with the chaps and he was about to spring his feminist trap when the woke lefty @Guardian blew his cover.

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5 years

Did anyone else read the piece in the Observer on Dominic Cummings? The one that had the words ‘Oxford-educated’ and ‘autodidact’ in close proximity? A strange new definition with which I am unfamiliar.

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3 years

Apologies to any working-class people who want to sing, act, compose, paint, design or write. ⁦ @GavinWilliamson ⁩ and his local henchman @stuart4wolvessw say it’s not for you.

Funding cuts to go ahead for university arts courses in England despite opposition

Education secretary Gavin Williamson says money will be put towards Stem and medicine courses

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

A student points out that one of these men is a bigoted producer of xenophobic horror stories. The other is HP Lovecraft.

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3 years

Sent by a friend:

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2 years

Institutional email encourages us all ‘to wear subdued colours’. I now regret not owning any colourful clothes.

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3 years

The government’s newly-appointed Social Mobility commissioner (and a headteacher) explaining here that she sees all humans as sinful from birth and in need of correction. Genuinely terrifying.

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@PlashingVole

2 years

My headteacher took the time to write secretly to every university I applied to telling them I didn’t deserve a place. Many thanks to the admissions officer who showed me the letter at an interview.

Kamali Thompson, MD, MBA

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2 years

Just out of curiosity, retweet if you were told by a teacher or advisor you couldn’t be where you are today.

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7 years

I’ve now read the Public Appointments Commissioner’s report into the Toby Young/Office for Students scandal. Prepare to be dazzled. 1

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2 years

Does accepting a free upgrade from one side in an industrial dispute then tweeting their PR stunt constitute a breach of impartiality?

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4 years

Disturbing stuff from the NYT.

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5 years

Despite my preference for milder language: me too. Poor A-levels; Bangor Uni took me in on Clearing; Sir Henry Jones Philosophy Prize; Danby Prize; 1 of only 2 1sts in my year; MA with Sherbrooke-Pitt Prize; PhD, PGC, Lecturer of the Year 2018 (for some reason).

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

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5 years

Fuck — and I cannot stress this enough — off, @thetimes

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5 years

So @MishalHusain asked my VC on @BBCr4today whether we were defrauding students by accepting them with very low A-level grades: taking their money and setting them up to fail. She also noted that my uni has a much higher proportion of BME students than most unis.

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2 years

Desperately sorry not to be in class today. I should be teaching my favourite novel - Northanger Abbey - to a particularly bright, likeable group of students. Instead I’m on strike and losing another day’s pay in the struggle to make this job attractive to the next generation.

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@timloughton Glad you think education is important. Perhaps given enough of it you’ll learn the difference between ‘peddle’ (to sell) and ‘pedal’ (foot-operated lever).

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I.e I am a normal student at almost any university across the country from almost any point in time. Literally all my students have jobs. Some work full-time hours and study full-time too: I wouldn’t have coped at all. That necessarily involves skipping classes sometimes.

Jim Dickinson

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1 year

"'I skip university lectures to do paid work instead'"

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6 years

Yet again I’ve fallen victim to the most middle-class crime imaginable: someone has stole the organic vegetable box from my doorstep. #bringbackhanging

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2 years

Ah, the very definition of solidarity in marketised #highereducation

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2 years

Apologies for being so awful to @michelledonelan . I can confidently say that her 35 hours as Secretary of State for Education was the least damaging incumbency in political history. If only they could all be so hands-off.

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3 years

Firstly: incoherent nonsense. Secondly: literally all my students have jobs, some of them - somehow - full-time, alongside having children. But that doesn’t suit the populist narrative.

Chris Parr

@ChrisJParr

3 years

Strong words from ed select committee chair @halfon4harlowMP at #CPC21 . “Every single course that a student does, whether it is history, archaeology or science, should be about work.” All students should spend “part of the week...doing a job”. #cpc2021

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5 years

‘We turned universities into anxiety engines for students and staff. We made the creek, here’s a tiny paddle’.

Universities UK

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5 years

🤲 Universities UK supports #RowBritannia , the mental health, fitness and wellbeing team challenge 👉 Raising funds and positive awareness, find out more about the challenge here #mentallyhealthyuniversities UUK President Julia Buckingham's message 👇

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Congratulations on all the exam results. If you’re choosing a university, go for one that doesn’t call the police on its students and staff for having opinions.

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1 year

23 years at this uni and we’re suddenly told that dissertations no longer need to be double-marked, only ‘moderated’. And yet academic standards are definitely not being watered down as a response to #MAB .

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5 years

Better than any REF output list or teaching award, I am delighted to discover that I have achieved the pinnacle of any academic career: blocked by @toadmeister at long long last.

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@PlashingVole

1 year

Including me. Tired of establishment views being promoted unreflectively by a group of well-connected Conservatives. It’s like listening in to a Spectator party.

Radio 4 flagship Today loses 800,000 listeners in a year to podcasts and rivals

BBC claims online listening increase offsets live decline, while Rajar figures show Greatest Hits and LBC gaining audience

www.theguardian.com

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@PlashingVole

4 years

If you aren’t a farmer, you shouldn’t have a 4x4. It’s that simple.

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@PlashingVole

5 years

If you’ve paid your taxes, still have a few spare millions, and don’t care about social cachet, get in touch. I’ll introduce you to bright students who could change the world if they weren’t (as happened this week) being made homeless, for example.

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@PlashingVole

6 months

All of them except for Starmer (Surrey); Corbyn (Wiltshire), Miliband (central London); Brown (Scotland); Blair (Scotland); John Smith (Scotland); Neil Kinnock (Wales); Michael Foot (Plymouth); Callaghan (Portsmouth); Wilson (Yorks.); Gaitskell (Kensington)…

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