In the end, if Higher Ed income is fixed but costs rise, the vast majority of English universities will have to close their doors. Not tomorrow, not next year, but within the next Parliament and the one after that. That's incontestable. Just brute facts.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This is good - better than previous articles on the topic. Makes the point that things won't stop with cuts in the arts and humanities, since they often help fund more expensive STEM degrees. 1/2 newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

🚨🚨🚨 University of York Vice-Chancellor says half of all universities are cutting jobs and courses. What that means is that the prospectus you or your kids sign up for may be nothing like what you get. Are you happy with that? 🚨🚨🚨

As UK academia prepares to shrink radically, it's now 44 universities with confirmed redundancy schemes. qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

Gosh, this sounds terrible.

Imagine losing 70% of your customers overnight…….

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Or do we think someone might be being slightly economical with the truth?

Let’s dig in!

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Teemu Taira Oh god this is horrific. Did you know at Goldsmiths our management gave us documents for our redundancy process that had left in “University of Kent” by accident??? 🤦🏾‍♀️ Cut & paste job being done to follow your suit. Solidarity ❤️✊🏿🔥

STOP CHANGING THE COLOUR OF THE FLAG

Fury over UK foreign aid budget being used to train Russia’s future leaders at British universities independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

🚨SCOOP: Government’s golden visa “cover up”

Thousands of rich Russians bought British visas -including 10 now sanctioned oligarchs

But Gov’t refuses to publish ‘golden visa’ review it commissioned *6 years ago*

“Scandalous” says Bill Browder

New by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government-h…

Amazing to see the Tories so concerned about the constitutional implications of opposition days. Just a few years ago, Theresa May simply refused to hold them. And then, when she eventually tabled them, she ordered her MPs not to vote, making them functionally redundant.

It always blows my mind how much wider the partisan trust gap is for US media compared to the UK 🤯

Most British media is trusted (or distrusted) about equally by supporters of both major parties. That’s true of virtually no US media org.

Deeply corrosive for US society.

I cannot imagine any exam at medical school - let alone finals having questions at this level from PA finals. I would expect most lay people to get these right.

The Department of Health and Social Care manoeuvre to roll out 10,000 PAs with poor regulation by GMC and indifference from the Royal

The data due to be published in the next Government Wine Cellar report has now been available for at least 21 months. There is no good explanation for ministers continuing to delay its publication, so decide for yourself what the bad explanations may be.
theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

this was the response from Baroness Mone’s lawyer when I asked some quite basic questions two years ago about PPE Medpro

‘You need a strong stomach to read the devastating 386-page judgment, published in the High Court. It is a nauseating catalogue of intrusion, lies, concealment and dishonesty by the very people we rely on to tell us the truth” My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/64…

What on EARTH are you doing, BBC News (UK)?!

Absurd, dangerous - and profoundly destructive of BBC's reputation.

it is objectively quite funny that the biggest surge in immigration in British history came *after* Brexit

'Generic medicines represent four out of five drugs prescribed by the NHS. '

Important to note this is simply a claim made by someone in an ongoing legal case. It is not a court verdict, or anything like that...

As full DTel story makes clear, there is overwhelming evidence that the #Astrazeneca vaccine saved many lives.

I don't want Palantir anywhere near our NHS data...

...and neither should you.

Share everywhere and sign below. 👇👇

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