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I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Cross-party support for the UCU Edinburgh rally this lunchtime @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #WeAreTheUniversity #Solidarity
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Great placards from the rally at the parliament #StopaStaffCutsatEoE
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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An amazing turnout at our UCU Edinburgh strike rally at the Scottish Parliament @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #WeAreTheUniversity
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Great turnout at the Edinburgh UCU rally at parliament to demand an end to the University of Edinburgh management reckless budget cuts and redundancies!

#StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Amazing turn out of Edinburgh University staff outside the parliament building right now to defend education against needless cuts
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Pickets, pickets, and more pickets!

Join us and show your support #StopStaffCutatUoE
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Lively picket with great music outside Old College
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Morning! Here is our schedule today⬇️

Join us at the rally in front of the Scottish parliament at 1pm today!
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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SNP minister 'could force' Edinburgh University bosses to negotiate with unions over job threats
www.scotsman.com/education/sn...
SNP minister 'could force' Edinburgh University bosses to negotiate with unions on job threats
Minister Ben Macpherson said he is considering whether to use special powers to force Edinburgh University chiefs into union negotiations
www.scotsman.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Solidarity to all at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social! I studied there in 2010-11 and staff were on strike then - I remember one of my tutors explaining that she felt it was part of her responsibility to us as her students to protect the future of academic pay and conditions.
Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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RALLY TOMORROW!

Join the fightback against job cuts!
Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the
Scottish parliament.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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A soggy morning challenging damaging cuts with my @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social colleagues at Old College.

Read about the dispute here:
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...

#ucu #StopTheCuts
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE
Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Intervention from @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh university as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU take three days of strike action this week to save jobs. Strike rally at the Scottish Parliament tomorrow, Wed, at 1pm #SaveHE #StopTheCuts #NoCompulsoryRedundancies
Edinburgh University is facing financial trouble, and the UCU said as many as 1,800 jobs could be at risk.

Our universities are built on the hard work of their staff, and we lose them at our peril.

That's why I raised this issue with the Minister for Higher Education today.
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs
SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Hi Alex, thanks for raising this; it’s difficult to say that the uni is ‘facing financial trouble’ because the details and provenance of alleged trouble are being withheld by management. We need much more transparent accounting, given the public implications of 1800 job losses.
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Edinburgh University is facing financial trouble, and the UCU said as many as 1,800 jobs could be at risk.

Our universities are built on the hard work of their staff, and we lose them at our peril.

That's why I raised this issue with the Minister for Higher Education today.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM