With Leeds Trinity and Loughborough we're now actually at 83, or exactly half of the 166 universities @timeshighered.bsky.social counts.
HALF OF OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE SHEDDING STAFF. In a normal timeline, politicians would care about this and try to do *something*, *anything*, right?
HALF OF OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE SHEDDING STAFF. In a normal timeline, politicians would care about this and try to do *something*, *anything*, right?
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I fear UK's rulers are implementing same strategy we now see across the pond: targeting education & especially the humanities per the 1971 Powell Memo: to chair of Education Committee of US Chamber of Commerce.
This destruction is feature, not bug.
..there is reason to believe that the campus is the single most dynamic source. The social science faculties usually include members who are unsympathetic to the enterprise system...."
Social science faculties (the political scientist, economist, sociologist and many of the historians) even [without] leftists."
..a priority task of business — and organizations such as the Chamber — is to address the campus origin of this hostility."
They show up with identical recommendations-often using the same PDF's.
I'd love to see a network map of them & UK higher ed vandals.
Good luck!
And yes, the same three consultancies being paid handsomely to give copy-pasted non-working advice.
When they gave their pdf to Goldsmiths they forgot to cntr+F and replace 'Kent'....
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2024-4-university-sends-out-redundancy-information-with-wrong-name-on-it/