Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
🤷♀️ one where the little people are blamed for the greed of the big ones?
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🤷♀️ one where the little people are blamed for the greed of the big ones?
LOL, has your boss also just realised that one of the components of the QS ranking is sustainability?
Ours is planning to make marking-by-AI a thing, and already pretends all PS staff can be AI. But they reminded me I have been asked to close my window so I should tell QS that we're sustainable.
Ours is planning to make marking-by-AI a thing, and already pretends all PS staff can be AI. But they reminded me I have been asked to close my window so I should tell QS that we're sustainable.
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
LOL, has your boss also just realised that one of the components of the QS ranking is sustainability?
Ours is planning to make marking-by-AI a thing, and already pretends all PS staff can be AI. But they reminded me I have been asked to close my window so I should tell QS that we're sustainable.
Ours is planning to make marking-by-AI a thing, and already pretends all PS staff can be AI. But they reminded me I have been asked to close my window so I should tell QS that we're sustainable.
yup. Or linking to the HR resource just to be legally ok -- and forgetting that those resources have been gutted as well.
December 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
yup. Or linking to the HR resource just to be legally ok -- and forgetting that those resources have been gutted as well.
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'Coventry is a great example' should have set off all the alarm bells.
Nous grab data, give the same generic powerpoint, know that cutting programmes doesn't reduce cost but do it anyway because it looks like 'tough decisions', & staff can't challenge because we're not given access to the data.
Nous grab data, give the same generic powerpoint, know that cutting programmes doesn't reduce cost but do it anyway because it looks like 'tough decisions', & staff can't challenge because we're not given access to the data.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
'Coventry is a great example' should have set off all the alarm bells.
Nous grab data, give the same generic powerpoint, know that cutting programmes doesn't reduce cost but do it anyway because it looks like 'tough decisions', & staff can't challenge because we're not given access to the data.
Nous grab data, give the same generic powerpoint, know that cutting programmes doesn't reduce cost but do it anyway because it looks like 'tough decisions', & staff can't challenge because we're not given access to the data.
Funny how many Hard Choice & Difficult Decisions they have to make, and for which they need to get absurd sums of money.
But then they end up just throwing transactional fees at external consultants, and claiming that they have no responsibility for anything. Why are we paying all this money then?
But then they end up just throwing transactional fees at external consultants, and claiming that they have no responsibility for anything. Why are we paying all this money then?
Those of us under £100,000 pa keep getting told we have to do more with less because the sector is in crisis. It doesn’t seem in crisis for those n six-figure salaries though? The Principal got yet another £5,000 bump, and the 140-150,000 bracket exploded. www.finance.qmul.ac.uk/media/financ...
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Funny how many Hard Choice & Difficult Decisions they have to make, and for which they need to get absurd sums of money.
But then they end up just throwing transactional fees at external consultants, and claiming that they have no responsibility for anything. Why are we paying all this money then?
But then they end up just throwing transactional fees at external consultants, and claiming that they have no responsibility for anything. Why are we paying all this money then?
Yeah, looking *too* much at the 'hard data' outside of Nous's powerpoint isn't exactly pretty, is it?
Kinda feel like I should be allowed to show this tweet and then declare the meeting and the (non-existent...) contract closed.
Kinda feel like I should be allowed to show this tweet and then declare the meeting and the (non-existent...) contract closed.
'Coventry is a great example' should have set off all the alarm bells.
Nous grab data, give the same generic powerpoint, know that cutting programmes doesn't reduce cost but do it anyway because it looks like 'tough decisions', & staff can't challenge because we're not given access to the data.
Nous grab data, give the same generic powerpoint, know that cutting programmes doesn't reduce cost but do it anyway because it looks like 'tough decisions', & staff can't challenge because we're not given access to the data.
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Yeah, looking *too* much at the 'hard data' outside of Nous's powerpoint isn't exactly pretty, is it?
Kinda feel like I should be allowed to show this tweet and then declare the meeting and the (non-existent...) contract closed.
Kinda feel like I should be allowed to show this tweet and then declare the meeting and the (non-existent...) contract closed.
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If it has EVER WORKED, someone would give the faculty who ask these questions in every single damn meeting right before the next knife goes in an example of a school this saved. Instead, the consultant/administrative/business class insists it does with no examples of how or where and when.
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If it has EVER WORKED, someone would give the faculty who ask these questions in every single damn meeting right before the next knife goes in an example of a school this saved. Instead, the consultant/administrative/business class insists it does with no examples of how or where and when.
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IT NEVER WORKS. NEVER. EVER. NEVER WORKS. IT HAS NEVER WORKED. AUSTERITY LEADS TO ENROLLMENT COLLAPSE LEAVES TO UNIVERSITY CLOSURE. EVERY TIME. ALWAYS.
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
IT NEVER WORKS. NEVER. EVER. NEVER WORKS. IT HAS NEVER WORKED. AUSTERITY LEADS TO ENROLLMENT COLLAPSE LEAVES TO UNIVERSITY CLOSURE. EVERY TIME. ALWAYS.
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'It’s not the role of the Commons Library to make policy recommendations – it provides background information to inform parliamentary debates and committee hearings. But it is difficult to imagine that anyone could read this document and conclude that students are adequately supported.' (DK) 2/2
The value of student maintenance support
How have student maintenance support levels changed over time? What support are students eligible for this and next academic year, is it enough and how much are their parents meant to contribute?
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'It’s not the role of the Commons Library to make policy recommendations – it provides background information to inform parliamentary debates and committee hearings. But it is difficult to imagine that anyone could read this document and conclude that students are adequately supported.' (DK) 2/2
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MOVABLE TOYS!
This pair of 18th c. religious prints are literally interchangable. Nice to see a 1626 Rubens painting of the Assumption of the Virgin) in the mix! #NewberryLibrary (Case folio NE958.3.F7 M68 1700z)
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December 5 (5/24)
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This pair of 18th c. religious prints are literally interchangable. Nice to see a 1626 Rubens painting of the Assumption of the Virgin) in the mix! #NewberryLibrary (Case folio NE958.3.F7 M68 1700z)
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December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
MOVABLE TOYS!
This pair of 18th c. religious prints are literally interchangable. Nice to see a 1626 Rubens painting of the Assumption of the Virgin) in the mix! #NewberryLibrary (Case folio NE958.3.F7 M68 1700z)
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December 5 (5/24)
#AdventCalendar
This pair of 18th c. religious prints are literally interchangable. Nice to see a 1626 Rubens painting of the Assumption of the Virgin) in the mix! #NewberryLibrary (Case folio NE958.3.F7 M68 1700z)
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December 5 (5/24)
#AdventCalendar
[does it show I've been exhausted by the knowledge politics around there?]
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
[does it show I've been exhausted by the knowledge politics around there?]
But supposedly the realistic ones are those consultants that swoop in smash everything, grab their ludicrous fee & run before we can see the consequences of their reduction of what is a complex ecosystem to a silly table of Stuff To Cut.
They're the ones with the easy story & the gullible audience
They're the ones with the easy story & the gullible audience
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
But supposedly the realistic ones are those consultants that swoop in smash everything, grab their ludicrous fee & run before we can see the consequences of their reduction of what is a complex ecosystem to a silly table of Stuff To Cut.
They're the ones with the easy story & the gullible audience
They're the ones with the easy story & the gullible audience
We also know that this is a complex ecosystem you can't dictate like a god for it to give you ✨profits✨. You can't reduce a teaching programme to a list of "hero modules" that have high recruitment and slash everything else -- those smaller ones are needed for development, fleshing out, research.
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We also know that this is a complex ecosystem you can't dictate like a god for it to give you ✨profits✨. You can't reduce a teaching programme to a list of "hero modules" that have high recruitment and slash everything else -- those smaller ones are needed for development, fleshing out, research.