Worried about international foundation year recruitment practices? You should be MUCH more worried about students I observed many times overseas admitted into "research intensive" UK MA courses via agencies with borderline pass/fail transcripts... thetimes.co.uk/article/cash-f…

Coming this Thursday. We have great speakers including John Potter 💙 @Neil_Selwyn Richard Nash, Jennifer Shaw from Digital Makers Bradford, and Steve Love from Glasgow School of Art. If you don't have a ticket and want one just message me. It is free.

So, The Labour Party are going to have a fun first year in power sorting out the budget, whilst frontline services suffer at the expense of political ambitions.

"For UK universities to take their money without sufficient concern about whether they receive what they are paying for is the worst form of academic colonialism."- my article today Times Higher Education #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter timeshighereducation.com/blog/gold-stan… via Times Higher Education

An honour. Thanks Times Higher Education 🙏

Opinion: Gold standard of UK degrees is lost in translation Absurdly inflated marks, overworked staff and politically compromised courses are the price of treating offshore UK-registered students as cash cows, says Michael James Day, PhD Read more: bit.ly/3xrFLoa

You just know that a crisis meeting was called about this over at adidas

Hong Kong vice-chancellor cleared of misconduct fears long-term damage: The University of Hong Kong leader Xiang Zhang wants better protection for staff from “malicious” allegations levelled anonymously. Helen Packer reports bit.ly/3VZUYHB

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You sort of have to philosophically question the suitability of a university leadership that has allowed itself to end up coerced to begin with. Pro tip: don't do business with people who coerce you.

That awkward moment when someone is blaring the New Labour soundtrack, and you realised you should have waited for the rain to stop before throwing in the towel. #election #conservatives #goodbye

That awkward moment over at The Office for Students (OfS) come 9am Monday. #highereducation #universities #academicchatter #academia

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Published today: Correction: Basis for fulfilling responsibilities, behavior, and professionalism of government agencies and effectiveness in public–public collaboration for food safety risk management dlvr.it/T88d6n

There are still places available at our next seminar on 27 June. Hear from 🥬 @[email protected] about web archiving and the 'right to be forgotten' Book your place now 👇

Thrilled to see that Humanities & Social Sciences Communications has bucked the trend to rise to 3.7IF and honoured to be part of the board that has seen it indexed in SSCI and beyond, rising the profile of research in social sciences.

Proud to have been a part of this Uni of Greenwich at an amazing day in #LondonPride

A pledge by the Myanmar military to build eight new universities over the next year has been met with scepticism as young people continue to show their dislike of the junta by boycotting higher education, reports Helen Packer timeshighereducation.com/news/no-educat…

Thank you to Advance HE for this incredible honour, helped by an excellent calibration training day and ongoing professional development opportunities.

Congrats to BDFI academic 🥬 @[email protected] on this brilliant funding announcement! 🙌 Her new project 'Digging into Digital Footprints Data' will explore different types of smart data 📊