Rick Delbridge
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The British university mess is so clearly what happens when the incentives of the people administering and consulting on the system bear no relation to those of anyone actually working in it
August 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The British university mess is so clearly what happens when the incentives of the people administering and consulting on the system bear no relation to those of anyone actually working in it
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Innovative Single-Use Endoscopy Technology Tackles NHS Waiting Lists | Life Sciences
IQ Endoscopes introduced a single-use diagnostic tool to address the growing demand for endoscopy procedures in the NHS, particularly reducing waiting times.
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April 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Last time of promoting this - next week, we publish our alternative for Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
ukania.substack.com/p/a-critique...
ukania.substack.com/p/a-critique...
A critique of Cardiff University's plans.
Redacted, revised and abridged.
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March 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Last time of promoting this - next week, we publish our alternative for Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
ukania.substack.com/p/a-critique...
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After four years, the current phase of the CCR Challenge Fund is coming to an end, but we are very proud of what we have achieved through our work during this time.
Watch the video to find out more about the impact of the CCR Challenge Fund:
Watch the video to find out more about the impact of the CCR Challenge Fund:
CCR Challenge Fund- impact to date
YouTube video by CCR Challenge Fund
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March 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
After four years, the current phase of the CCR Challenge Fund is coming to an end, but we are very proud of what we have achieved through our work during this time.
Watch the video to find out more about the impact of the CCR Challenge Fund:
Watch the video to find out more about the impact of the CCR Challenge Fund:
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big scoop from @georgewparker.bsky.social
“English university is set to be fined a record £585,000 over allegations it failed to uphold free speech and academic freedom, in a landmark ruling in the debate over student rights on campus”
“English university is set to be fined a record £585,000 over allegations it failed to uphold free speech and academic freedom, in a landmark ruling in the debate over student rights on campus”
New - big news in the free speech debate as Sussex Uni hit with record fine. Sasha Roseneil, vice-chancellor, said the regulator had decreed “free speech absolutism as the fundamental principle” for universities. With @pmdfoster.bsky.social
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England’s university regulator issues record fine in Sussex free speech case
[FREE TO READ] Policies intended to prevent abuse or harassment of certain groups on campus had created ‘a chilling effect’, OfS says
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March 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
big scoop from @georgewparker.bsky.social
“English university is set to be fined a record £585,000 over allegations it failed to uphold free speech and academic freedom, in a landmark ruling in the debate over student rights on campus”
“English university is set to be fined a record £585,000 over allegations it failed to uphold free speech and academic freedom, in a landmark ruling in the debate over student rights on campus”
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Find out from our case study video how IQ Endoscopes are working with @cavuhb.bsky.social and @cedarcardiff.bsky.social in the last phase of the Endoscopy Challenge
@zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
@zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
Endoscopy Challenge, part 2 (Eng subs)
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March 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Find out from our case study video how IQ Endoscopes are working with @cavuhb.bsky.social and @cedarcardiff.bsky.social in the last phase of the Endoscopy Challenge
@zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
@zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
This is a great example of the challenge-led innovation we have been supporting in collaboration with @ccrchallenge.bsky.social #innovation #mission
Find out from our case study video how IQ Endoscopes are working with @cavuhb.bsky.social and @cedarcardiff.bsky.social in the last phase of the Endoscopy Challenge
@zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
@zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
Endoscopy Challenge, part 2 (Eng subs)
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March 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is a great example of the challenge-led innovation we have been supporting in collaboration with @ccrchallenge.bsky.social #innovation #mission
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Our recent #MissionsInAction event (21 Feb) featured case studies of real-life mission-led/challenge-based activity. Did you miss it? Find out more and watch all the presentations on our website:
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Missions in Action, 21 Feb- event highlights
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March 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our recent #MissionsInAction event (21 Feb) featured case studies of real-life mission-led/challenge-based activity. Did you miss it? Find out more and watch all the presentations on our website:
www.challengefund.wales/news/mission...
www.challengefund.wales/news/mission...
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A lot can happen in 20 years
March 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A lot can happen in 20 years
Important critique of how the ‘transformation process’ that is engulfing Cardiff University is being managed. We should debate the what but not the how of organizational change. The twin harms of reputational damage and to staff wellbeing must be minimised.
My Substack on the Cardiff University situation is out....
March 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Important critique of how the ‘transformation process’ that is engulfing Cardiff University is being managed. We should debate the what but not the how of organizational change. The twin harms of reputational damage and to staff wellbeing must be minimised.
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I talk about why academics in Cardiff University are angry, why I’ve voted for a strike, and higher education policy more generally from about 15 minutes in.
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Sunday Supplement - Ukraine, Higher Education, a new electoral map, Covid remembrance, the Law Society at 200 - BBC Sounds
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.
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March 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I talk about why academics in Cardiff University are angry, why I’ve voted for a strike, and higher education policy more generally from about 15 minutes in.
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In 2004, defence accounted for > 30% of UK govt R&D spending; in 2022 it stood at 13%.
An important graph for appreciating the scale of changes to the UK’s science & innovation landscape that geopolitics is likely to dictate, as the “peace dividend” unwinds
An important graph for appreciating the scale of changes to the UK’s science & innovation landscape that geopolitics is likely to dictate, as the “peace dividend” unwinds
March 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
In 2004, defence accounted for > 30% of UK govt R&D spending; in 2022 it stood at 13%.
An important graph for appreciating the scale of changes to the UK’s science & innovation landscape that geopolitics is likely to dictate, as the “peace dividend” unwinds
An important graph for appreciating the scale of changes to the UK’s science & innovation landscape that geopolitics is likely to dictate, as the “peace dividend” unwinds
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Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here.
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
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February 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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Universities are: successful exports, magically avoiding trade barriers. The buyers come here and give you £! They are also spreaders of our values and way of life abroad. They are great ways of levelling up as a campus does not need to be in the South.
The Welsh university system is in such dire straits. For a small, mostly rural country that needs economic growth, and is trying to build a sense of itself, that's a disaster. Yet the whole reaction (unlike steel) is like *shrugs shoulders, whatever*. I don't get it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University applications drop leading to economy concerns
Wales will be at an
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February 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Universities are: successful exports, magically avoiding trade barriers. The buyers come here and give you £! They are also spreaders of our values and way of life abroad. They are great ways of levelling up as a campus does not need to be in the South.
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The Welsh university system is in such dire straits. For a small, mostly rural country that needs economic growth, and is trying to build a sense of itself, that's a disaster. Yet the whole reaction (unlike steel) is like *shrugs shoulders, whatever*. I don't get it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University applications drop leading to economy concerns
Wales will be at an
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Welsh university system is in such dire straits. For a small, mostly rural country that needs economic growth, and is trying to build a sense of itself, that's a disaster. Yet the whole reaction (unlike steel) is like *shrugs shoulders, whatever*. I don't get it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Great gesture
To honor the memory of Michael Burawoy, and his tremendous contributions to sociology and Marxist scholarship, Critical Sociology is making every article he published there free in perpetuity. You can find them here:
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February 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Great gesture
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Here's the crazed madness of British Higher Education policy: there's a big demand to do Engineering, but unis can't afford to offer more places. Utterly maddening. Stupid, dumb as rocks country. 🇬🇧
The latest UCAS data (applications by the January 'equal consideration' deadline) suggest a 14% increase in applications to Engineering & Technology courses. It's the second double-digit surge in two years.
Good news, right? Sadly, it's mostly not.
Buckle in: 🧵1/27
www.ucas.com/undergraduat...
Good news, right? Sadly, it's mostly not.
Buckle in: 🧵1/27
www.ucas.com/undergraduat...
February 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's the crazed madness of British Higher Education policy: there's a big demand to do Engineering, but unis can't afford to offer more places. Utterly maddening. Stupid, dumb as rocks country. 🇬🇧
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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics.
The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.
The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.
February 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics.
The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.
The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.
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Hey industrial relations people (labo(u)r relations, unions etc.). This looks like a great network.
Don't miss our first event with @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social on his research with solar and building trades! March 20, 1pm EST. Registration: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Hey industrial relations people (labo(u)r relations, unions etc.). This looks like a great network.
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Totally agree with this. If there isn't a major course correction there won't be much left of Welsh Higher Education by the end of the decade. It's in even worse shape than the HE 'system' in the rest of the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Call for major review of Welsh higher education
Plaid Cymru call for a review of how universities are funded follows redundancy plan at Cardiff University.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Totally agree with this. If there isn't a major course correction there won't be much left of Welsh Higher Education by the end of the decade. It's in even worse shape than the HE 'system' in the rest of the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today's universities slashing and burning have been Brunel and Edinburgh. As the crisis deepens, there'll be multiple news like this most days. Remember: you can't cut your way to safety, it's impossible.
February 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Today's universities slashing and burning have been Brunel and Edinburgh. As the crisis deepens, there'll be multiple news like this most days. Remember: you can't cut your way to safety, it's impossible.
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One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend:
*Centralise functions
*Cut small courses
*Reduce student options
*Abolish loads of joint awards
*Chop staff headcount
This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)
*Centralise functions
*Cut small courses
*Reduce student options
*Abolish loads of joint awards
*Chop staff headcount
This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)
February 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend:
*Centralise functions
*Cut small courses
*Reduce student options
*Abolish loads of joint awards
*Chop staff headcount
This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)
*Centralise functions
*Cut small courses
*Reduce student options
*Abolish loads of joint awards
*Chop staff headcount
This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)
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@cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers on Re-emergence of #IndustrialStrategy edited by @dgbailey.bsky.social @gretegans.bsky.social @lisadepropris.bsky.social and @cgrisbath.bsky.social Co-Director @prt1969.bsky.social
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The Re-emergence of Industrial Strategy
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February 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
@cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers on Re-emergence of #IndustrialStrategy edited by @dgbailey.bsky.social @gretegans.bsky.social @lisadepropris.bsky.social and @cgrisbath.bsky.social Co-Director @prt1969.bsky.social
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Do you have a research paper on #coworkingspaces #thirdspaces?
See @cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers. Special Issue edited by @fmfai.bsky.social & Ilaria Mariotti 👇🏼
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@edwardyates.bsky.social
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@edwardyates.bsky.social
@cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers on #thirdplaces #coworkingspaces edited by @cgrisbath.bsky.social Co-Director @fmfai.bsky.social and Ilaria Mariotti
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Collaborative spaces in Third Places: evolution, typologies, impacts and policies
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February 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Do you have a research paper on #coworkingspaces #thirdspaces?
See @cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers. Special Issue edited by @fmfai.bsky.social & Ilaria Mariotti 👇🏼
@clivelloydspex.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social
@edwardyates.bsky.social
See @cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers. Special Issue edited by @fmfai.bsky.social & Ilaria Mariotti 👇🏼
@clivelloydspex.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social
@edwardyates.bsky.social