I’m old enough to remember when you could walk into a lab, throw a schedule and a few handouts around and start lecturing.
Now it is a major software engineering project every year to create the #blackboard VLE.
@gawenjenkin.bsky.social
@gawenjenkin.bsky.socialI’m old enough to remember when you could walk into a lab, throw a schedule and a few handouts around and start lecturing.
Now it is a major software engineering project every year to create the #blackboard VLE.
@amkasprzyk.bsky.social
@ronaldhartz.bsky.social“as public funding for universities falls, there is a real danger that billionaire and corporate money begins to shape academia” (Prof Lyla Mehta, Head of the climate, environment and sustainability department at the University of Sussex)
@drmichaeleades.bsky.socialGood funding opportunity here via @migrantfutures.bsky.social. Grants up to £20k available for artists, photographers, filmmakers, and migrants’ organisations to explore how images can reshape public feelings about migration…
Timely and urgent!
@qmucu.bsky.socialcoming in 19th in an overall UK ranking - finally, we are winning in something!
Read the full article here: thetab.com/2026/09/08/t...
@matildaf.bsky.social
@ucucommons.orgNewsletter #27! Feat:
- Maddie Moore NEC election
- New equality standing committee nom process
- Trans inclusion webinar
- Climate committee annual meeting
- 'Thinner universities'
- BA/Science Minister saga
- Open letter for LGBTQ+ activists in Türkiye
@onslies.bsky.social“If the crisis is caused by the funding model, why are workers only fighting its consequences?”
The #UKHE permacrisis needs a national response.
@matildaf.bsky.social@ucucommons.org
@mellimo.bsky.socialExcellent analysis and call to action on the crisis of #UKHE : it's time for a national industrial response
@amkasprzyk.bsky.socialIn the UK we have the sunk-cost of taking Maths and Further Maths A-levels. So it might take a while before we know how students are reacting to the media. But suppose Further Maths A-level numbers start to fall as students hedge their bets. How would Russell Group universities respond? #UKHE
@amkasprzyk.bsky.social67 days of strike action at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social #UKHE #Nottingham
@ronaldhartz.bsky.social"We have a responsibility to protect the data, intellectual property and academic work of both our students and the University."
University of Southhampton moves away from Turnitin.
@drmichaeleades.bsky.socialThis is so depressing to read. Raising fees (yet again) is not going to save #UKHE. Particularly not as a bogus ‘quality’ marker. Sorry to be boring but the answer to the problem lies in good old fashioned state investment in education… #academicsky www.timeshighereducation.com/news/russell...
@j2bryson.bsky.socialI suspect Edinburgh very much sees the need for many of these degrees (though some seem like desperate blends attempted to raise student interest.) But they are making soul-destroying choices because of budget constraints. #UKHE
@ronaldhartz.bsky.social"The concern is with image, not reality: so long as the good headlines come and the bad ones go, such categories as true and false or right and wrong are merely the affairs of philosophers."