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It is also nearly impossible to tell if a university will go bust....universities borrow money from banks...If they get into financial trouble, they will renegotiate the terms of their loan with the bank...no bank wants to see a university which owes them money failing'.

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@universities-uk.bsky.social

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www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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"Cardiff has embraced the entirely bizarre proposition that the global and transtemporal examination of culture is possible even without the provision of languages at degree level. There are very many reasons why this is alarming." 👇👇

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Senedd Members criticise ‘colossal’ Cardiff University cuts caerphilly.observer/news/1046668...

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I doubt any Troll here who’s trying to smear ⁦Keir Starmer about decade-old events will be interested to read these pages from my book about his record prosecuting rape gangs. But he’s done more to bring them to justice than Farage, Yaxley-Lennon - or Musk -will ever do.

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Removing the financial support enabling students in state schools learn Latin in the UK is an appalling and shortsighted policy. Please sign this petition to keep the Latin Excellence Programme - www.change.org/p/save-the-l... #AncientBlueSky

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Just imagine the benefits of doing this for three years! #EnglishCreates Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Creative arts graduates succeed because of their background, not in spite of it wonkhe.com/blogs/creati... Important recalibration of creative arts careers data and impact by Katie Normington, VC of De Montfort and Professor of Drama, and graduate of English.

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Call for unpublished female writers … ‘Discoveries invites all unpublished and unagented women writers aged 18 and up, currently residing in the UK or Ireland and writing in English, to submit their works of adult fiction to the Discoveries Prize.’

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"There are cold spots in arts, humanities, and social sciences provision" - with huge consequences for inclusion, access, fairness of opportunity. wonkhe.com/blogs/there-...

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"The end of the fossil fuel age is inevitable," said @antonioguterres @UN today at #G20Brasil "Let’s make sure it does not come too late – and that it comes with justice." #COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Pls Repost: building a list of people working on/in working-class literature. #workingclassliterature

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Excellent advocacy on R4 Today for the importance of enjoyment, creativity, and relevance in GCSE English from Freddie Baveystock #EnglishCreates

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The damage being done to Britain's research base by letting a pseudo-market crumble up university depts and throw them in the bin... Well, it's really something.

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Come and spend an afternoon with us… Remembering the Miners’ Strike www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rememberin...

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Calliberations: A Celebration of Willy Maley 24 May, University of Glasgow – free Celebrating Willy Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies – from his work as a groundbreaking scholar of early modern literature & culture, to his mentorship of countless students www.eventbrite.ca/e/calliberat...

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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” Paul Auster, R.I.P.

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The #EnglishCreates campaign by @univeng.bsky.social is running a competition: create a video — sixty seconds or shorter — on what makes an English degree so brilliant

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Every research report: Humanities majors have great career prospects! Every research university: Here's why sadly we must restructure the humanities,

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@univeng.bsky.social AGM and Spring Conference, 22-23 March. Booking opens tomorrow. ALL colleagues welcome. See our web-site (universityenglish.ac.uk) for more details soon. @gailmarshall.bsky.social @bobeaglestone.bsky.social

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The David Paroissien Prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. Deets here. victorianist.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/p...

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Please consider signing this petition to prevent catastrophic job cuts at Oxford Brookes. Arts & humanities are besieged as a consequence of policy changes, among other things. Brookes won't be the last to go through this. Solidarity is essential. https://t.co/mNbElDKP5k

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Just days before the start of the inquest into the death of Ruth Perry – the Reading primary headteacher who took her own life following an Ofsted inspection of her school – her family have learnt that their application for Legal Aid to fund their legal representation has been rejected.

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The Arts and Humanities Alliance remains deeply concerned by news of proposed closures & redundancies in a number of our disciplines: Languages & cultures at Aberdeen University and most recently the planned cuts to English, History, Film, & closure of Music at Oxford Brookes.

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Terrible news: “Today Oxford Brookes announced the closure of its Maths & Music departments, & that many colleagues in others are at risk of redundancies in a ridiculously short timeframe & insulting VS scheme: in English, History, Film, Anthropology, and more to come. All doing great research.”

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University English OGM on 8 December, 10.30-3 with sessions on AI, REF, SUMS data work, #EnglishCreates campaign, and how to support depts facing redundancies. Please book your spot via the EventBrite page tinyurl.com/ywxhztxm ALL WELCOME

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Rather sadly - my first post on here is to let anyone who will listen know that English/Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes is facing massive redundancies - 40% of staff to be culled by January including my own role. Please share and support, we are trying to save our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish

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I’ll be one of the speakers at this.

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www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Fully funded PHD opportunity. “The Present and Future of Reading” University of Portsmouth School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature - Deadline Oct 30th

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A job listing, so please share and repost: The University of Virginia Department of English is searching for an assistant-professor, tenure track, in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Here's the link: apply.interfolio.com/130424

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