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The April Fools 'news' that falsely announce university mergers that would result on layoffs are unfunny, especially at a time like this. #ukhe #ukuniversities #ucu
Which UK University would you look at if you wanted to find a hub of computational social scientists?
"Much of my working world in 2015 is unrecognisable to me now, and my daily aim is just to preserve what remains. "
This captures the transformation that has happened in UK Universities over the last decade
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-decade-of-crisis/
@simon_on_energy very good
" Much of my working world in 2015 is unrecognisable to me now, and my daily aim is just to preserve what remains. "
A decade is a long time in #ukhe
Photo of the #UKRN Institutional Leads retreat last week in Cardiff.
https://www.ukrn.org/2025/03/11/the-2025-ukrn-institutional-leads-retreat/
There are students union elections in my university. It's not a very political union, more like a services one. Of all the sabbatical positions (president, VP education, VP Welfare and VP Activities) the Welfare position has twice as many candidates as any of the other ones. A sign of our times.
Very good to see Ben's eye on the useless #Turnitin. Ive always spurned any use of Turnitin in L&T. Their bigtech con played on HE has set the scene perfectly for #genAI Co's to subsume universities as data generators for their private profit. HE even pays for this privilege!
#AI #UKHE #academia
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rl2szulxujlgdcmx4avx7jyn/post/3ljt2vqrvrc27
"Students who aren’t using generative AI tools are now a tiny minority."
"A survey of 1,000 students – both domestic and international – found ...the proportion using any AI tool surged ..to 92% in 2025 "
The disruption of the traditional University assessment model is already here, it is just that awareness of this isn't evenly distributed yet
Elden Ring or Tenure-Track Professor?
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/elden-ring-or-tenure-track-professor
Trump’s re-election to boost UK universities as fewer students choose US
UCU members at Newcastle University have backed strike action in defence of jobs: 83% of members who voted did so in favour of strike action in a ballot with a turnout of 64%.
Management is making over £35m in cuts, has cancelled promotions, restricted travel and has opened a voluntary severance scheme. It has also refused to rule out compulsory redundancies.
At the same time as making these huge cuts at home the university is looking to open a campus in India.
https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/13903/Newcastle-University-staff-vote-to-strike?utm_source=Mastodon
An overwhelming 82% of University of East Anglia (UEA) UCU members have voted in favour of strike action. The ballot resulted in the highest turnout UEA UCU has ever achieved, reaching 67%.
Management has threatened to cut over 190 staff members to meet continued budget shortfalls, including at least 30 staff in the faculty of medicine & health sciences, 25 in the faculty of science, 22 in the faculty of arts & humanities, and at least 90 from departments across professional services.
UEA now needs to begin meaningful negotiations to prevent compulsory redundancies if it wants to avoid industrial unrest.
Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 full-time jobs
That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week.
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky
Cardiff: University confirms p...
-- Newcastle University –
Last Wednesday announced plans to cut around 300 staff (150 professional services staff + 150 academic staff) to make savings of £20M. Also plans to reduce academic staff time allocated to “unfunded research.”
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky
Cutting unfunded research ‘hit...
Our statement on the government's changes to the Higher Education 'Free Speech' act.
A strike ballot has opened at the University of East Anglia (UEA) after almost one in six staff were put at risk of redundancy because of continued budget shortfalls.
This follows over 400 staff leaving the university in 2023 due to management's projected £40m deficit in that year.
Staff threatened with a restructure by Sunderland University management have been told they cannot tell colleagues they are at risk of losing their jobs.
"It is outrageous for staff who have been threatened with the sack to effectively be gagged by the university and prevented from telling their colleagues."
Strike ballot at Newcastle University
£35m of cuts have left our members suffering.
Staff should not pay the price for management’s financial mismanagement.
Huge cuts across the institution include cancelling promotions, restricting travel, and asking staff to quit the institution via a voluntary severance scheme. The university has also refused to rule out compulsory redundancies.
Reuters survey of over 150 UK universities and their colleges finds many are abandoning X over concerns about misinformation, content that promotes violence, and declining engagement.
#UKHE #AcademicSky
UK universities join retreat f...