*I’m not at risk of redundancy and we don’t have that going on at the moment.

You know you’ve been a UCU rep a while when you get a long service award and one of the first things you do is work out what that would mean for any statutory redundancy payout

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

I mean, if I were being generous, I’d say that someone of them might be a bunch of morons who shat themselves when they realised what being elected actually entailed in terms of work (see several other councillors who resigned pretty quickly elsewhere too)

I always thought the swanky looking stuff ended up at the BL

No, it never existed, and then the imaginary target was scrapped by the Conservatives years ago anyway.

The rise in numbers going to uni was entirely down to higher demand from students.

Nope. This is in no way a good thing. Not even remotely

Journalism is a tough gig in 2025. News desks are pared to the bone, specialists are all but gone, nobody wants to pay to consume and advertising is in a death spiral.

So let's be honest about why Farage and co get so much coverage: they provide endless, cheap, easy stories and promote rage clicks.

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention.

Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them.

Who do you think Reform are?

This.

This is who they are.

Hence it never gets the coverage that people not doing STEM gets.

Modern language education is probably the best educational crisis in Britain but gets very little coverage because we assume the rest of the world just speaks English as a second language

Asst'd reasons, incl that in laboratory sci subjects 1. You need buildings w labs (£££); 2. having undergrad lab classes to staff limits how bad you can make your staff-student ratios; 3. demand for sci PhDs means Unis can't staff lecture courses w casualized staff like they often do in arts/hums.

As we keep saying: when the humanities are in trouble, the sciences are, too; generally, at UK universities, the sciences are cross-subsidised by the arts and humanities.

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

The worst kind of policy moaner is a middle aged arts or humanities graduate grumbling that not enough young people study STEM subjects.

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

The best advice to students beginning university can be summed up as: if in doubt, ask your teachers (or librarians, or student support staff, etc. as relevant) and not the plagiarism robot. The Guardian can send my fee to my PO Box.

I am wondering if the death of Alexander III in 1286 could be the basis of a Carry On Film?

PS: the ‘branch office’ brigade can bugger right off

It would be good at some point to see and MP for a Scottish constituency have a role in cabinet that isn’t Secretary of State for Scotland

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I suspect that the many who say that the humanities are not ‘career-related’ or to be blunt, those who dislike people studying the humanities, actually don’t want to hear evidence to the contrary

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