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📢 Call for Abstracts!

We’re inviting the entire professional learning community - from career academics to practitioners and emerging researchers -to share their work at our upcoming event on 5-6 June.

📅 Deadline: 5th May, 5pm
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The energy around the Professional Learning Research and Practice Assembly is already beginning to build. DCU in Dublin is the place to be on 5/6 June. But if you can’t be there sign up as a supporter and be kept informed of all developments being planned. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 Join us in DCU Institute of Education on June 5th and 6th for our two-day assembly devoted to discussing and sharing research on professional learning. 📢

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5th & 6th June 2026 | Professional Learning Research and Practice Assembly 📣 Professional Learning Research and Practice Assembly 📣 Venue: Dublin City University Institute of Education, St. Patrick's Campus Date: Friday June 5th and Saturday June 6th 2026 🗣️ We invite you t...

This looks like a fabulous event with real potential to establish an international community focused on high-quality, relevant, and transformative professional learning, bridging research, policy, and practice.
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Delighted to be part of the organising group for this fantastic event.

Join us at Dublin City University on June 5th and 6th for stimulating research and thought-provoking discussion within the ever-widening field of professional learning.

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Professional Learning Research and Practice Assembly Supporters Whether you can be with us in Dublin or not, we invite you to join us as a supporter of this project. As a supporter, you will be kept informed about all the practical activities and networking opport...

If you can’t be with us in Dublin - add your name to our supporters list. Be kept informed, and get involved, as we create something new - building from the bottom up. Sign up here - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

5th & 6th June 2026 Venue: Dublin City University Institute of Education, St. Patrick's Campus, Drumcondra, Dublin, D09 YT18, Ireland Date: Friday 5th June & Saturday 6th June 2026

Out of the ashes … there is always the possibility of hope and renewal. A new space to connect research and practice in professional learning. Not just learning for work, but about work - and indeed, against work. Be part of something exciting and radical sites.google.com/dcu.ie/profe...

Academic Freedom Falls Sharply in U.S. amid Worldwide Decline, Report Finds Academic freedom falls sharply in U.S. amid worldwide decline, report finds.

"According to the data, academic freedom is now declining in more countries than it is improving across all five dimensions."

Another day, another reminder that organizing in higher ed has never been more urgent.

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#yourturn2 #etuce #linkleaders #tradeunionrenewal #education #aob | Peter den Hartog Today I met with sector consultants from the AOb to talk about YourTurn 2 — and LinkLeaders in particular. Great conversation. They immediately recognised the type: the colleague everyone goes to when...

It resonated personally. You really captured fundamental aspects of organising and leadership. Peter also had a good session with colleagues at the @aob.nl
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Always grateful for a plug Jelmer! I’m happy to see this work getting picked up in various places. Fantastic work by ZNP using Your Turn 1 and 2 last week. Delighted to see people engaging with it and applying it in their own context.

An overlooked (and very frustrating) part in organising is the internal part. You have to bring the union and your colleagues along. And that requires strategising, compromise (constituencies ECE to Highered). This very recent work by @howardstevenson.bsky.social is crucial
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YOUR TURN 2 New Insights into Union Renewal The trade union federation and social partner for education in Europe Education International - Europe

Two versions of the report - one full length and a shorter edited version. Both available here www.csee-etuce.org/en/item/7207...

Another run out for our @etuce.bsky.social report on union renewal and building union power - 2nd of 3 gigs for @epsu.bsky.social organisers. Polish teachers, Irish academics and London Underground workers all engaging with the framework.

The image features a promotional poster for a GFTU Educational Trust event titled "Lessons in Organising - Workplace," scheduled for 11-13 May. Pencil graphics are used in the design. There is a photo of a speaker labeled "Howard Stevenson.

This is a promotional card titled "Meet the Tutor" for Howard Stevenson. It features a photo of Howard speaking at an event. Text on the card details Howard's credentials, including being an Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham. The course offered is "Lessons in Organising - Workplace" at GFTU Quorn Grange, with dates 11-13 May 2026 and an application deadline of 27 April 2026.

Strong unions are built through organising

Lessons in Organising – Workplace helps workplace reps and activists develop practical strategies to strengthen organisation and union power.

Tutor: @howardstevenson.bsky.social

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Solidarity with ex-colleagues at University of Nottingham - their determination is inspirational.

University staff demand fair pay & an end to sector wide cuts UCU alongside its sister unions, Unison, Unite, EIS & GMB has today (Tuesday) demanded university bosses protect pay, protect jobs and improve working conditions across the sector.

30% real-terms pay cut since 2011.

Vice-chancellors attempting 15,000+ job cuts since last September.

UCU & sister unions are fighting back - submitting our 2026/27 pay claim to UCEA demanding fair pay, protected jobs & an end to casualised contracts.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1443...

“Our federal government is sending a message that only a narrow definition of humanities can be supported, celebrated and invested in, and that there are only a narrow set of people, culture and experiences that are worth understanding in depth"

Car. Crash.

The ETUCE Higher Education & Research Standing Committee meets in Brussels this week!
Two days of strategic debates on quality assurance, academic freedom, working conditions, and the future of European higher education.
#HERSC #HigherEd #TradeUnions #ETUCE

The Right Expands Its Campaign to Censor College Professors PEN America called 2025 ‘a year of catastrophe for higher education,’ but professors are fighting back against censorship.

“Our vision for a fully-funded public education, where a professor can write and teach freely, and can challenge every vapid, cruel argument federal and state governments make, sustains us. It’s what we’re fighting for.” 

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Hearing about the building to win project, identifying concepts behind engagement and then discussing that into concrete ideas was a really valuable part of today’s #UCU #ARPS AGM

We're kicking off this afternoon at the #UCU ARPS annual meeting with guest speaker @howardstevenson.bsky.social from @uonucu.bsky.social, talking about the Building to Win project. Situating our struggle & challenges in wider trends in tertiary education and the union movement in and beyond the UK.

In an unprecedented move, one reflective of the deeply unprecedented times at our university, UoN branches of three different unions (@UCU.org.uk, @unisonorg.uk, and Unite) have all successfully passed motions of no confidence in the Vice Chancellor and the entire executive board.

@etui.bsky.social and ETUCE will launch the book “Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector” on 4 March at 17:15 in Brussels. Join us for a discussion on AI, governance, quality, and working conditions in higher education.

Citations Needed: News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago In this News Brief, we are joined by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Todd Wolfson of the American Association of University Professors to discuss Trump's gutting of higher education, its expansion on previous...

NEW: AAUP President Todd Wolfson & council member Chenjerai Kumanyika sat down with the hosts of the excellent Citations Needed podcast to discuss the acceleration of Trump's assaults on American higher education & how the AAUP is fighting back.

Check it out here:

YOUR TURN 2 New Insights into Union Renewal The trade union federation and social partner for education in Europe Education International - Europe

Our report on union renewal for @etuce.bsky.social. www.csee-etuce.org/en/item/7207...

Growing leadership from the ground up: Reflections from the “Your Turn 2” Final Conference The Final Conference of the ETUCE project “Your Turn 2: Teachers for Trade Union Renewal” took place in Vilnius on 18-19 February 2026, bringing together education trade unionists from across Europe t...

How can everyday workplace leaders renew our unions?
ETUCE’s “Your Turn 2” project wrapped up in Vilnius, where unions from across Europe explored how link leadership can strengthen organising and build member‑driven change.
Read more: tinyurl.com/2c9dpumx

Sorry mate. Post George Galloway and you’ve lost me. Good luck with whatever you do - but if George Galloway is an ally you’re on a different side to me.

Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender

Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies.

“I have never seen anything like this.”

— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President

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