Dr Nick Turnbull

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

Save a top Sociology department at Macquarie University, Sydney: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

As the current global HDV fleet is almost exclusively fuelled by diesel ⛽️, Carbon Tracker forecasts transition to BEVs will result in oil 🛢️ demand destruction of 2.5 mbpd by 2036 📉 https://buff.ly/3ETWdBv

"The #renewables future is here" https://buff.ly/4g5Q56Y #EnergyTransition

Sad but true – Donald Trump really did wrestle his way into the White House | David Moon The president-elect’s victory was straight out of the pro wrestling playbook. Voters knew it was fake, but they loved it, says Bath University’s David Moon

Sad but true – Donald Trump really did wrestle his way into the White House | David Moon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Insightful Guardian piece by rhetoric specialist David Moon

NEW on Wonkhe: Adam Matthews interrogates whether a "meritocratic" view of society, that favours elite higher education as the most legitimate form of aspiration, has fuelled social division in the UK https://buff.ly/3VsZsoX

OECD data on national tuition fee levels presented as a bar chart in dollars. England's annual fee of 13100 is the highest, with the US level of 9600 coming in second and Japan third at 5600.

The House of Commons Library published a briefing on tuition fees today, which included this OECD graph. I think most people don't realise how high UK fees are internationally. #iTeachChem commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Well worth reading on NZ National's spiteful and small-minded announcement defunding humanities and social sciences research.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Left unamended, the Employment Rights Bill (which gives guaranteed hours to a qualifying ZHC worker after the end of every reference period) would pretty much destroy the ability of universities to have PGRs doing teaching

Our open access comparative country study paper on #populist and #productivist reforms aimed at restricting university autonomy #HigherEd #HE journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with @shaunwilson.bsky.social

Edinburgh University boss announces job losses due to national insurance hike The university said it is opening a voluntary redundancy scheme and compulsory redundancies may be necessary "if unavoidable" due to the financial climate.

University cuts stories over the last few days:
*De Montfort
*Dundee
*Durham
*Edinburgh
*Northumbria
*Robert Gordon
*Sheffield
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

Yes indeed. Redundancies and course curs sweeping through the sector in anticipation of the caps. The VCs jumped the gun. It appears 'never waste a crisis' was the driving factor. Will these job losses and cuts be reversed?

Redundancies loom at University of Sheffield over £50m funding gap Up to £23m in cuts made primarily from support staff could be made at the University of Sheffield, with hundreds of jobs on the line.

Today's university in trouble is Sheffield, as the unstoppable and existential crisis of most British Higher Education rolls on. Every day it's another victim. Wasteful and stupid.
www.thestar.co.uk/education/re...

Turns out if you’d like to know more the webinar is actually on 4th Dec!