English lit degree at Sheffield Hallam is being “suspended.” University responding to Government who will no longer fund degrees where 60% students don’t end up in “highly skilled” jobs within 6 months.

When was it ever more important in our history for young people to be able to manipulate language and to understand how they are manipulated by language and stories.

@desertrose1969 Mary Peace PerfumeAddict #NotMovingOn 🌻 #ArmUkraine Exactly that.. they see those subjects as a "jolly wheeze" for posh boys to study at Oxbridge and then go on to a totally unrelated job through connections.. they only want the general public to be educated to drone level.

Mary Peace According to HESA - and your VC is chair of that - English is one of the higher performing degrees in the uni on that metric. I have written to him with that welcome information.

Mary Peace Dr Linda Dykes has moved to Bluesky Whereas people going to Oxford to do exactly the same degree get well paid jobs because… they don’t live in Sheffield and have the privileges the word Oxford gives them. This is not #LevellingUp

Mary Peace Here we go with those HESA stats: Sheffield Hallam English Language 9.5 out of 10; English Literature 8.28. (University of Sheffield English language and Linguistics 8.55 and English Literature 8.8) . Top score at Hallam is 9.5 public.tableau.com/app/profile/da…

The Tories have been in power for 90 of the last 125 years, if they didn’t break Britain, who did?

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Tight monetary policy Truss' economic advisor says - code for public spending cuts? To create unemployment so that private sector can grow by recruiting them with new investment galvanised by tax cuts. Tax cuts alone won't do it without a reserve pool of available labour

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thought I’d share this golden clip while everyone is aimlessly waiting

16th July, London - all welcome to discuss Degree Apprenticeships In English HE: How Do They Fit In The System And Can They Contribute To Widening Access And Participation? CiviCRM | Society for Research into Higher Education (srhe.ac.uk)

Even better with this link .... CiviCRM | Society for Research into Higher Education (srhe.ac.uk)

Do Degree Apprenticeships really contribute to widening participation? Maybe for students who are already employees of firms offering DAs, but our new SHU/Edge Foundation research shows a poor match between how providers 'do' WP work and DA recruitment. @SRHE HEP Network 16/7

.Carl Smith urges the new Labour government to phase out grammar schools. "It would be a straightforward process, one most areas concluded decades ago. Most of the country would not even notice and it would cost next to nothing." schoolsweek.co.uk/the-labour-par…

For those who can't imagine the death of American democracy, we imagined it for you. Watch here.

It's Coming Home

Holy Smokes, the Marsh Family has put out this parody song about J.D. Vance and not only is it catchy but it hits the nail on the head… “Anti Trump a few years ago,  Called him out as a ‘Hitler’ show.  Now you’re playing his sidekick,   Kissing Donald’s ring” I watched it 70

Molly Scott Cato is on Bluesky If everybody became 'lambyist' the planning and delivery of those infrastructure changes required for a low carbon future would be severely constrained - I am beginning to think the Greens are more about identity politics than the environment