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Graphic shows % of universities undertaking various cost cutting measures, comparing spring 2024 with spring 2025. Course closures, cutting optional modules, compulsory redundancies, and department closures have all surged

I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow

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As if it needs to be said - all this is having a massive negative impact on the quality of learning for the majority of uni students nationwide. It's really bad for the country. We're failing our young people. But anti uni sentiment is so rife it's not taken seriously

single file queuing in a pub is an abomination

It's crucial to understand that what's bad about income inequality is not just that it enables elites to consume more; it enables them to *control production*. They decide how to use *our* labour and *our* resources, and shape *our* future. It is a dictatorship of the rich.

Point taken, that is a little misleading, I do work in HE so I'm quite familiar, but I don't really think it makes that much of a difference to the main points being made?

ok, how is it inaccurate? not really that helpful just to be like 'wrong, actually'. Clearly bullshit that it's unemotive but the numbers are there.

thanks Ed. great stuff as ever!

Tax dodge= immediate suspension

Long term relationship with paedophile sex traffickers= carry on

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a pink labubu doll with an X over it

two orange and yellow bear mascots with Richard D James’ face on them standing in a field, from the Donkey Rhubarb music video

REJECT MODERNITY // EMBRACE TRADITION

Fraud is one thing, but lying to Gillian Anderson???

Notable how Marr chooses to misquote with 'kill the IDF'

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

And if my grandmother had wheels she would be a bike

My favorite protest chant is probably when the mounted police show up and you get to shout "get those animals off those horses" at the cops. That's just solid joke structure

The current CPI is 2.6% so this is a pay cut. In 2021 UCU showed a 20% real terms pay cut since 2009. We must be well over 25% by now.

Sheffield’s brand-new energy hub will offer a one-stop shop for citizens on everything from energy efficiency and retrofit to community energy projects Opening soon on Cambridge Street, the centre will provide advice and support for householders wanting to transition to clean energy sources.

"We urgently need to both reduce our home energy use and move to clean energy for heating & powering our homes"

Sheffield's new Energy Hub will provide advice & support for householders wanting to transition to clean energy sources, writes Gavin Martin ✍️

My toxic trait is that I give a fuck

Sorry, but this is just a fully radicalised perspective, and anyone espousing it should be going through Prevent not advising it.

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as an academic I'm recent years I have discovered a new low - the feeling you get when it takes longer to read something than the student took to produce it

Labour proving beyond any doubt that they are a massive danger today. No reasonable person should be supporting them.

The real problem isnt chatGPT, its that universities (in the UK at least) are not genuinely invested in good academic standards. They just want to get students through the program, and chatGPT actively helps them in that it can be a lifeboat for students who don't attend or engage with the material

AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?

This is absolutely horrible Clive

Coming up at SAME - natural brush making workshops.

This weekend in Sheffield

Accordingly, a person with same sex orientation as a lesbian must be a female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) females, and lesbians as a group are females who share the characteristic of being sexually oriented to females. This is coherent and understandable on a biological understanding of sex. On the other hand, if a GRC under section 9(1) of the GRA 2004 were to alter the meaning of sex under the EA 2010, it would mean that a trans woman (a biological male) with a GRC (so legally female) who remains sexually oriented to other females would become a same sex attracted female, in other words, a lesbian. The concept of sexual orientation towards members of a particular sex in section 12 is rendered meaningless. It would also affect the composition of the groups who share the same sexual orientation (because a trans woman with a GRC and a sexual orientation towards women would fall to be treated as a lesbian) in a similar way as described above in relation to women and girls.

Going through the For Some Women decision, and something I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is that the court took it upon itself to define lesbians in a way that excludes some cis lesbians and includes some straight trans men.

I dunno, if I was Oswald Mosely's grandson I'd change my name and stay the fuck out of public life. But that's just me I guess 🤷

Welcome, comrade CO2