The situation across the country is increasingly desperate. Some depts have huge student numbers whereas others face possible closure. Everywhere there is short staffing and stress. Student AI misuse is rampant, creating tremendous problems. People feel disempowered. Leadership is often invisible.

Has to be Palace winning the FA Cup. It was an incredible achievement and a momentous day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The redundancies and deletion of specific academic sub-disciplines at Leicester were appalling. The university was widely condemned for it. But the VC then gets rewarded by a Labour government? This cannot be right. thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/shap...

Universities in UK have basically abandoned mature students. Universities seem to have no vision or effort to create short courses etc that serve local communities. This is a potential opportunity but management shows no interest in it.

I don't think even Maslow himself ever got there. And it seems he didn't even build the thing!

psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-...

It also seems to assume academics are getting everything wrong and failing their students. I really don't agree with this.

Thanks for sharing. But this seemed a bit of a rambling article without a clear answer. I agree on some level that it makes little sense as a strategy for universities to continue criticizing other actors. But then this piece provides no suggestions about what we academics can and should do.