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Bristol's open day is...closed & we're on strike Our message to management: halt the pay docking, call on UCEA to negotiate & end the national degree scandal #ucuRISING

This is appalling—students deserve to work with motivated and properly respected and PAID staff. Instead, management teams around the UK seem content to devalue degrees and make a mockery of the UK’s amazing academic history. UCU will never give in to such bullies. #ucuRISING

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📷 Ahead of their first of 6 days strike action and their 30th since last February hear from University of Leeds branch secretary Angela talk about why members are taking strike action LeedsUniUnison UNISON in Higher Education UNISON - UK's largest union

Exam boards are currently taking place University of Leeds so we will soon see the full scale of the disruption caused by our marking and assessment boycott. But what do we know in the meantime? TLDR: some students will not be classified & many will not receive fair marks. A 🧵

University of Leeds Across campus, one area chose to farm out their marking & external markers have responded with high marks all round & an abundance of firsts. A very clever tactic, but not one that conforms with either quality assurance, academic integrity or fairness

On track for a first currently, but a dissertation on digital can be horrendously misinterpreted if marked by a non-expert… I graduate in two weeks and only have 40/120 credits worth of marks 🤠 University of Leeds, I ‘graduate’ in two weeks and am entirely in the dark. Sort it!

Great letter The Times and The Sunday Times today from linda merrick and jeffreysharkey on music education. Every word is spot on ISM

Our first concert!

Somehow, over the last 24 years, I have made 100 recordings. In the run-up to the release of the 💯, I’m going to tell you about them! Starting today. V short videos… don’t worry 😉 🧵 #1 Music for a Perfect Day (now repackaged: dinmore-records.co.uk/back-catalogue… )

Time for a change… ☺️ #NewProfilePic

Catch this angelic moment tonight on In Tune BBC Radio 3 at 5.30pm 😇 Preparation for our Late Night Prom this Thursday eve! bbc.co.uk/events/ejqhj5 BBC Singers BBC Proms

⚡️ NEWSFLASH ⚡️ "Vice chancellor resigns after pressure from staff" Following motions of no confidence passed by all 3 trade unions, the University of Leeds VC Simone Buitendijk has announced that she is stepping down with almost immediate effect. leedsucu.org.uk/vice-chancello… UCU

The endless justifications of atrocity on here would elsewhere be called: victim-blaming. But Jews, because of the deeply embedded association of this one minority with power, cannot be victims. They must always be held in some way responsible for their own misfortune.

Shouldn’t your recent caller have consulted a dogsicologist? (I’ll see myself out…) LBC James O'Brien

This is excruciating. On #PM Evan Davis is politely but firmly telling the Chief Secretary to the Treasury how to do sums.