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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21h

This is who Robert Jenrick is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

Minister Robert Jenrick ordered painting over of child asylum unit murals - BBC News

Robert Jenrick is reported to have considered the cartoon images in the Dover centre too welcoming.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d

Here are two of the relevant sections on ECHR in the Belfast/ Good Friday Agreement (Cm 3883, pp 16-17). I'm as moderate a Nationalist as you can possibly be. Without ECHR I would regard the multilateral Agreement as terminated.

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 5d

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Frank Ejby Poulsen, PhD @fepoulsen.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent analysis of the state of 🇬🇧 HE. Same crisis in other countries. I think there is a need to regain public support and start engaging more and better in public debates, while embracing the changing role of HE. Question is how… Any suggestion welcome

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent (but depressing) analysis by @gsoh31.bsky.social on the fragile state of higher education in the UK. This passage particularly struck me. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 6d

This is a must read to understand the context of Britain's universities and their finances.

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 7d

Like almost everything said about universities in the public sphere, utter garbage that insofar as it means anything will have the opposite effects of those intended. I am not going to comment much on HE going forward, because there's not much point.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 8d

New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 8d

For this reason, and apart from the occasional article, I won't be sounding off much more about the great university debacle. Let's see what's in the White Paper and Budget, but I've advocated enough and huge upheaval and shrinkage is now inevitable. (2/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 8d

New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social · 29d

still looking!

Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social · Aug 21

Currently looking for work. I am a former Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds. I have six years of teaching experience, research experience with particular strengths in qualitative methods, project management experience, and personal tutoring experience. I also have editing experience too!

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29d

As expected, the university union UCU will ballot for industrial action. A loooong, and maybe decisive, year ahead.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29d

The UK university sector's desperation is now beginning to show through.

Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 29d

British universities offering discounts on tuition fees worth up to £5,000 per year in a bid to attract international students www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dynamic... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

‘Dynamic pricing’: overseas students offered thousands off fees

Some ‘scholarships’ advertised by UK universities contingent on grades or ‘ambassadorial duties’, with others applied automatically to all

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29d

Are you kidding me, I've written and written and written and written in the press and I've advised and spoken and phoned and zoomed. I'm exhausted from trying to help!

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29d

'In this lecture I will reflect on the idea of "Anglo-Saxon liberties" popularised in the c17th and coming to their fruition in the American Revolution and especially as part of Victorian ideas of governance...', etc until zzzzzz. 🥱

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29d

We Europeans have got to pay for our own defence. That will involve big tax rises and big changes to what we can afford at home. Anything less and we get a land war. That's my view, and I'm sticking to it.
glandsbergis.substack.com/p/europes-su...

Europe’s summer charm offensive has failed

Unfortunately — Europe didn’t even wake up, let alone step up.

glandsbergis.substack.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29d

In my new book on Blair I've tried to treat his govts like any historian, tho of course that's impossible so soon. What were the roots and effects of Peelism, Gladstonism, Baldwinism, Attleeism, Thatcherism? The era deserves a similar treatment. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

Manchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?

New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29d

Blair and 'Blairism' in domestic policy - the good, the bad, the ugly. It's all here. Give it a pre-order! What have you got to lose... (2/2)
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

Manchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?

New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29d

I see there's debate about Blair and 'Blairism' again. As luck would have it, the proofs for my book on just that are now in!! So I'm going to review these for the next few days, while you can pre-order the book right now for just £20! Go on, it's a good deal. Link below... (1/2)

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great article here that lays bare what for me is at the heart of UK Higher Ed's chaotic retreat. Governments simply do not have the governing capacity to stop it. The powers, time, staff, knowledge, data and admin structures do not exist. Pushing on a string.
wonkhe.com/blogs/warm-w...

Warm words from ministers to Universities UK, but a noticeable absence of buttered parsnips

Ministers at Universities UK conference were keen to show their appreciation for the sector – but Debbie McVitty argues that a deeper relationship with government remains elusive

wonkhe.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Sep 8

Good stuff here on the damage the now-acute university financial crisis is doing to research. You simply cannot promote or enable good research if the sector doesn't have a clue where it's going - except down. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

University crisis is forcing the REF to lower its expectations - Research Professional News

When dauntingly complex plans meet cash-strapped institutions, something’s got to give, says Anna Grey

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Sep 8

Given the flood of university redundancies I'm expecting this academic year, I should think strike action will be endemic across the sector. No getting away from that now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

University lecturers stage five-day walkout during freshers week

They are protesting the ‘largest ever’ budget cuts at the institution

www.independent.co.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fair comment, tho I don't think I ever called voters thick or gullible. It's the policymaking centre that gets it wrong time after time. Tho as real wages rise and public sector spending does the same, one has to engage with a series of vectors for populism rather than simply the one of austerity.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Sep 7

Well that's what I mean. Absolutely scything through legal migration, most of which the public is in favour of, to assauge anger about irregular movement which is much harder to affect, is dumb.

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