Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cambridge University cosies up to Reform The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies

One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

The consultancy Nous takes hundreds of thousands of pounds from universities, leaves the exact same path of destruction everywhere, and keeps trying to avoid transparent contracts.

We’re urgently need control over consultancy spent in #UKHE, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

No matter how tough you say times are, there’s always enough money in the banana stand to pay an external consultant to scope ‘academic efficiency opportunities’ www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.

Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...

At last, some properly rigorous reporting on the vampiric management consulting behind proposed cuts at Edinburgh Uni.

Grab some garlic, read and weep.

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

Some of our most precarious members, tutors and demonstrators on 'guaranteed hours' contracts, have had their work hours cut or disappeared entirely in management's cost cutting spree. All the money paid to Nous could have gone to them.
#StopStaffCutsatUoE

www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

£750k?!?! 😡😡😡
Nothing like waking up at the weekend after another exhausting week to find out your employer is paying a consultancy firm £750k to set out ways staff are not efficient.

www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

Strikes off at Lancaster University after bosses withdraw compulsory redundancy threat Planned industrial action at Lancaster University has been suspended following talks.

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Cross-party support for the UCU Edinburgh rally this lunchtime @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #WeAreTheUniversity #Solidarity

Great placards from the rally at the parliament #StopaStaffCutsatEoE

An amazing turnout at our UCU Edinburgh strike rally at the Scottish Parliament @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #WeAreTheUniversity

Great turnout at the Edinburgh UCU rally at parliament to demand an end to the University of Edinburgh management reckless budget cuts and redundancies!

#StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk

Amazing turn out of Edinburgh University staff outside the parliament building right now to defend education against needless cuts
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!

Pickets, pickets, and more pickets!

Join us and show your support #StopStaffCutatUoE

Lively picket with great music outside Old College

Morning! Here is our schedule today⬇️

Join us at the rally in front of the Scottish parliament at 1pm today!

SNP minister 'could force' Edinburgh University bosses to negotiate with unions on job threats Minister Ben Macpherson said he is considering whether to use special powers to force Edinburgh University chiefs into union negotiations

SNP minister 'could force' Edinburgh University bosses to negotiate with unions over job threats
www.scotsman.com/education/sn...

University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed

'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3

SNP minister 'could force' Edinburgh University bosses to negotiate with unions on job threats Minister Ben Macpherson said he is considering whether to use special powers to force Edinburgh University chiefs into union negotiations

www.scotsman.com/education/sn...

Solidarity to all at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social! I studied there in 2010-11 and staff were on strike then - I remember one of my tutors explaining that she felt it was part of her responsibility to us as her students to protect the future of academic pay and conditions.

RALLY TOMORROW!

Join the fightback against job cuts!
Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the
Scottish parliament.

Picketers with placards before a stone archway

Me in bobble hat holding sign saying stop thd cuts. Picket line seen to rear.

A soggy morning challenging damaging cuts with my @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social colleagues at Old College.

Read about the dispute here:
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...

#ucu #StopTheCuts

Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!

UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE