🚨‼️ BREAKING: USS trustees have confirmed that the basis for cuts has disappeared, as assets hit £88bn. We need you to urgently: ❌ Lobby your VC to ask UUK to revoke the cuts: ucu.org.uk/article/12114/… 📝 Sign the emergency petition to the JNC chair: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/uss-cuts-are-n…

The countdown is ON for the Lancashire ADM Shield Final this weekend Eccles RFC are hosting ourselves up against Tyldesley RUFC on Saturday - KO is @ 2:30PM Let’s go Old Bedians! #rugby #Final #grassroots #englandrugby

Holidays!

This is very much a suprise. Didsbury Old Bedians had and always will be very special to me. Thank you lads.

In a rush in the morning? Get a free breakfast snack and drink before your exams! Come to the Alan Turing Building Student Support Hub every weekday morning during exams for your breakfast. 🥣 🍞

Feeling stressy over exams? We've got you. Find refreshments, spare stationery, and stress relieving activities in Niels Bohr.

Join us to discuss teaching programming to UoM Physics & Astronomy students with @lcawthorne1 on Monday 13th June at 2pm BST The University of Manchester All welcome! sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/2022/05/10/sig… #SIGCSE #astronomy Brett A. Becker @nwalet UoM Physics & Astronomy @proftimob Brian Cox @_teresaanderson @EngineerDG

1/ Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: ‘Punish[ing] Those Who Fail To Do Their Gender Right’ Our big #qualitative analysis (386,277 unique responses!) published in Higher Education link.springer.com/article/10.100…

If you’ve been working in a pre-92 University with a USS pension, you guaranteed income in retirement was protected by successful industrial action in 2018. This is a fact. When you finally retire, you can thank colleagues that took action on your behalf in 2018. Now…

Thanks Key Travel for providing me with an invalid ticket collection number for my 7:27 train. Really needed that adrenaline rush of buying the tickets myself with 2 minutes to spare.

The new teaching resources have arrived!

Just shy of 100km hiked over 4 days in the Spanish Pyrenees. I would highly recommend this part of the world to others.

Postgraduate students in the UK now earn *less* then minimum wage! This is already an emergency not even taking into acount the impact of soaring inflation and rising energy prices. We need urgent action! UK Research and Innovation @GeorgeFreemanMP @beisgovuk 1/7

THREAD Liz Truss’ new DfE team want more pupils allocated to either grammar schools or secondary modern schools at age 11. 10 papers containing all the evidence you need to know about grammars in England... 👇

Today it was announced that Ofqual are proposing to keep the provision of a formula sheet in GCSE physics. Something I FULLY support. It has been opened for public consultation. The response form is here - make your opinion heard! Chat Physics ofqual.citizenspace.com/public/gcse-ma…

This #WorldMentalHealthDay, we want you to know that The University of Manchester keep *2455* staff on fixed-term contracts, harming their mental health, while pretending to care 💜 VOTE YES. #ucuRISING

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