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Margot C. Finn is a British historian and academic who specialises in Britain and the British colonial world during the… more

Margot C. Finn
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But other than that…..
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It's as coherent a policy as one could expect from a person who believes (or, at least, asserts) that she was offered a place at Stanford to study medicine at 16.

by Margot C. Finn

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'The vote was triggered by the announcement of £30m-worth of cuts at the university this academic year, £25m of which will come from staff costs.'
Vote of no confidence in Swansea University vice chancellor over job cuts
UCU members at Swansea University pass a vote of no confidence in its vice chancellor due to job cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk
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by Katrina Navickas — Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, Melanie Williams

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Contrasting headlines
Rip off degrees such as English
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by Tim Bale — Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, Jonathan Portes, Steven Van de Walle

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She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄
Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut
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by Margot C. Finn

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It shows what large lashings of cash can enable, but if it sets a precedent that encourages more modest philanthropy in Humanities elsewhere that would be a very good thing.
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by Margot C. Finn

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'obliging different areas to bid against one another and then leaving the ultimate say-so down to Whitehall has proven hugely misguided in all sorts of different levelling-up-adjacent funding opportunities in recent years.'
So this is what devolved research funding looks like
A couple of recent policy announcements show how the government is attempting to navigate the niceties of regional funding distribution
wonkhe.com
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Katrina Navickas

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'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'
Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’
New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world
www.timeshighereducation.com
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Pauline Stafford

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'The party would introduce caps on funded courses that consistently “lead to poor graduate outcomes”, allowing it to invest further in the “apprenticeship revolution” it started, it said. Remaining funding will be used to support high-quality courses at research-intensive British universities.' 3/3
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by Margot C. Finn

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'The MP for north-west Essex will use her first conference speech as leader to promise “radical reforms” of higher education, labelling it a “rigged system propping up low-quality courses”.' 2/3
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Constance Bantman

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'Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls.' 1/3
Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places
Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships
www.timeshighereducation.com
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by Margot C. Finn

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'At a moment when the world is desperate to comprehend Russia, journalist Julia Ioffe seeks to explain it through the eyes of women, some of them historical figures, some from her own family.'
Motherland by Julia Ioffe review – the matriarchs who built mother Russia
A journalist uses family and political history to paint a portrait of a country in turmoil through its women
www.theguardian.com
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Tom Shakespeare

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Worth reading. And a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3IYbvaK
The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk
The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack
www.ft.com
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, Norbert Schwarz, Peter Thorne , and 15 more

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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8h
Here’s video of the incident
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by Margot C. Finn

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Quite interesting.
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Tilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social · 12h
I spoke to former schools minister Nick Gibb @politicshome.bsky.social
-Tories focusing too much on culture wars
-& not enough on “real lives of people & their challenges”(all mainstream parties guilty of this)
-UK should be leading reform of ECHR not leaving it
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Nick Gibb: The Tories Are Too Focused On Culture Wars
Former schools minister Sir Nick Gibb has accused the Conservatives of focusing too much on culture wars and not enough on “the real lives of peopl...
www.politicshome.com
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, Richard S.J. Tol, Andrew Scott , and 2 more

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Breaking: Tories would slash university places by 100k.

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in apprenticeship funding.

Tomorrow, Badenoch will unveil plans to limit student numbers across all subjects.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News
Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn

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I spoke to former schools minister Nick Gibb @politicshome.bsky.social
-Tories focusing too much on culture wars
-& not enough on “real lives of people & their challenges”(all mainstream parties guilty of this)
-UK should be leading reform of ECHR not leaving it
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Nick Gibb: The Tories Are Too Focused On Culture Wars
Former schools minister Sir Nick Gibb has accused the Conservatives of focusing too much on culture wars and not enough on “the real lives of peopl...
www.politicshome.com
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell , and 10 more

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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, Jonathan Portes

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“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, David Darmofal

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"Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world."
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 17h
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
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by Margot C. Finn

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Perhaps universities and REF should focus first on diversity of researchers, something for which (unlike diversity of outputs) there is a statutory duty in each of the 4 nations and something for which we have (quite horrifying) meaningful evidence. The avoidance of these data shouts eloquently.
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by Margot C. Finn

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'Writing in The Times, Starmer had urged students to avoid taking part in protests two years on from the day when more than 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas.'

If he's writing in The Times, he's not actually addressing students.
Students defy Starmer’s call not to hold Gaza protests
Hundreds gather in London despite the prime minister telling them to stay at home on the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell , and 3 more

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I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race
The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...
www.thetimes.com
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn, Kris Inwood, Elaine Treharne , and 2 more

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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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by Margot C. Finn

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Yes, it's a real worry. Some places will have amazing Outputs from no-longer-in-post "voluntarily" redundant staff and PCE statements that report on a unit that has existed for perhaps a year.
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn

museumsandheritage.com
News | Bronze age gold stolen from display case at St Fagans National Museum of History
Bronze age gold stolen from display case at St Fagans National Museum of History - Museums + Heritage
Two suspects forced entry into the main building in the early hours of Monday morning, with staff on duty overnight uninjured.
museumsandheritage.com
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn

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To mark Black History Month in the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth, British Academy Global Professor Robert Morrison explores how themes of slavery appear in the periphery of her novels including how the unfinished Sanditon introduces a mixed race character thebathmagazine.co.uk/austen-and-a...
Austen and Abolition - The Bath Magazine
Celebrated for her romantic plots and social satire, Jane Austen’s novels largely avoid direct engagement with the turbulent political issues of her time, such as the transatlantic slave trade. But wh...
thebathmagazine.co.uk
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Charles West, Tim Hitchcock

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'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.
National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’
A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...
news.exeter.ac.uk
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Reposted by: Margot C. Finn

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In case you missed it — our cold spots research was covered in a panel discussion on Radio 4’s Front Row programme yesterday! Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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#Handsworth could teach @RobertJenrick how to live in a global society. #BenjaminZephaniah - spirit of #Birmingham - said "Handsworth for me is...where I learnt all my skills, my communication skills, my hustling skills, my poetic skills, everything."
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