That is absolutely right. Ironically, it's often worse at "financially sound" universities. As if, perhaps, they're managing their finances by creating unsustainable workloads?

I feel that way too. I wonder who else does, and what it is we might share.

sounds like you work in a university.

Row over tuition fees cut for European students threatens Starmer’s EU reset British negotiators ‘blindsided’ by Brussels’ demand for a reduction that could cost universities £140m a year

Will Universities UK call for EU students to pay home fees? Will the Russell Group? Will some institution support the ideals of education and intellectual exchange over the latest short-term money grab? It's 20 years of "realism" that have got us into this mess. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I know that I've walked by this place but can't remember where it is....

I had that last week--pretty good!

Tickell is a blight on Higher Ed, reliably endorsing all the worst policies.

Yes, and yes.

Good call by Starmer not letting Burnham run, because after a result like this he would definitely have launched a leadership challenge....😂

Same. And the same for almost every colleague I know.

Exactly. "Our own fault" if we're still letting ourselves get beaten down by teaching seminars, giving lectures, and marking essays instead of "managing"? Sometimes it feels like that is the message.

Life at Warwick. It's amazing what those who are not in the trenches, who create these workloads, haven't seen.

But they might vote for the Greens? Seriously, they should know that when Farage leads the polls NONE of the old certainties hold. Anything can happen.

I don't think so. He's well known as Mandelson's protege, and Mandelson is now thought to have given away state secrets. The association is too strong. Anyone known to be close to Mandelson is now finished.

I'm surprised no one is saying ANYTHING about Streeting. Isn't it likely this ends his hopes too? PM Mahmood (not a prospect I in any way relish) has never seemed more likely. On the other hand, if this had happened 2 weeks earlier they would've had to let Burnham run, and then...

It would mean taking them on. It's time to take them on. (I fully understand the obstacles you point out).

The obvious solution is to legally limit the number of properties any individual or company can own with the purpose of renting.

I just hope the meeting wasn’t a short session.

I assume Morgan McSweeney made the decision, and since McSweeney wants Streeting anyway, it's all to the good that it makes Starmer look weak.

But this might ensure that the challenger can only be Streeting, whom the puppet-masters would rather have anyway. What's strange (but no longer surprising) is that Starmer himself is too stupid to see this.

It's such a stupid idea that foreign students can get the "same" education without actually living in a foreign country, without engaging with the people and culture of that country. It's such a stupid idea that Universities UK warmly welcomes it, the greeting it offers to what is most stupid

Over here at Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics we would be interested in seeing something on Loy. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bl...

With Thompson you tend to need a very subtle filmic equivalent of the first-person narrator, which turns out to be harder than it looks.

Your description also holds good for the ludicrously named "Office for Students," which "regulates" higher education, and should be done away with.

Why is it seen as a good thing for applications for asylum to be "down"? It's only a good thing if it means there are fewer people in the world who need asylum. If that's not true, then it's a good thing when applications go up. We should be giving shelter to more people.

This just takes us to YOUR uni log-in, old chum! Please post journal name.

I of course agree but in reality the rest of the RG is probably avidly eyeing it to see what it's possible to get away with.

That's the playbook.

Good thing the Govt did all it could to prevent this by launching a massive campaign of free vaccinations in the autumn...oh, wait a minute....www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/11/nhs-...

Starmer and hardline governments risk creating ‘hierarchy of people’ by constraining human rights Human rights official says politicians are playing into the hands of the populist right as they seek to tackle migration

I'm so impressed by Starmer's work here. In fact, I think Fifa should give him a peace prize. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...