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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)

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they've realised they're gonna lose waltham forest council and now suddenly care to check in with constituents

yes—fortunately cllrs like him are too stupid to realise when they're personally insulting their constituents and will therefore never get any further than the safe seat that is no longer safe x

lol the labour party just knocked on my door

anyway, fuck the labour party, support this long overdue inquiry, and vote green if you live in waltham forest and wanna see the back of these ghouls and the anti-LGBTQ+ politics they unequivocally represent

i get that labour cllrs are the least influential figures in the labour party, but this guy's choice to brush off a constituent's real concern about his party's attack on LGBTQ people with a self-regarding laugh (yes, impressive how 'young' you are) said it all

one fun interaction i had last summer was with a labour cllr in my ward of waltham forest (st james)—when i told him i was concerned about the govt's revival of section 28 in its RSHE guidance the dickhead just laughed and said section 28 was 'a bit before his time'

‘The Writer’s Room’ Review: Where the Words Come From Marcel Proust wrote in bed; Dalton Trumbo in a bath; Agatha Christie only needed ‘a steady table and a typewriter.’

“A sprightly account of writers’ rooms on both sides of the Atlantic.” Read the @wsj.com’s review of The Writer’s Room by @kdclewin.bsky.social:

Is this extremely predictable, extremely predicted outcome unplanned, though? Or have capital and its assistant, the state, been relentlessly shaving down the mediating layer between public funds and private profit, "education," for decades?

Nobody understands this about the government’s settlement reforms. People think it's 10 years for most & 15 years for care workers

But its 15 years for all midskill roles, whatever the salary, if not a graduate job role classified at RQF level 6. Lab technicians, data analysts, hotel managers

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers

This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it.

👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/

#OpenAccess #ScholComm

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight.

As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

Has anyone written a review of the restructuring going on across UK HE? Trying to understand what is common across institutions: large, team-taught courses, centralised workload models, limited to no research time, promotion directly tied to grant income. How many consultancy firms are pushing this?

👇 excellent article that we were very pleased to published ♻️

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

Universities pay copyright fees. Libraries pay copyright fees. Theaters pay to perform copyrighted work. Artists and authors pay licence fees to quote others in their own work, usually out of pocket.

Call for Editors: Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press - British Association for American Studies Co-Editor of the Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press                                                                                          […]

Call for Editors!

The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor.

Apply before 18:00, 13th March.

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Weekend Edition Sunday Hear the Weekend Edition Sunday program for Mar 01, 2026

Find me, nestled in amongst the absolute bonkers news, on @npr.org in a lovely conversation with Andrew Limbong about my book - Limbong goes on a little visit to Lucille Clifton's house...

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.

ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity / Isabelle Torrance (ed) www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #openaccess @clic-erc.bsky.social @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @daireach.bsky.social @pomuirch.bsky.social
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Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s <em>How to Be Both</em> and Percival Everett’s <em>Telephone</em> in the Age of Cruel Optimism Many of the formal innovations of contemporary fiction arise from a collective sense of ceaseless crisis—a recognition that traditional modes of storytelling, forged in earlier cultural climates, may ...

📞 Gerald David Naughton & Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton's '"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Percival Everett’s Telephone in the Age of Cruel Optimism' is one of the articles in our latest issue
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Really happy to share this roundtable - thanks to all those who were involved and to @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social for putting it together!

Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction This article traces the inception, reception, and study of climate change fiction to show how profoundly awareness of anthropogenic climate crisis, and of the severity and scale of the collective huma...

🗣️ Hanne Bolze's 'Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction' is one of the six (and counting) articles in 'The Century at 25'—a brilliant assessment of the emergence CliFi as a genre.

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dang, i was so sure ;p

ah yes, the west country

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In some ways I'm philosophical about The End these days. It is what it is. But for the final wave to hit because of the crisis when we worked the hardest we possibly could, we nearly broke ourselves, and did exactly what the govt told us to do? It seems.. painful.