Seriously, turn on that Spanish translator. It's absolutely abysmal what these students have been put through the past few years, despite SO MANY efforts of staff & students to get them better supported, all, mysteriously, rebuffed by the Principal's Office.
and now 29 of them might never graduate
Jose argues that his situation exposes structural gaps in the university’s scholarship agreements rather than isolated failures. He says there appears to be no clear framework governing how funding bodies assess academic performance when universities have already conducted formal reviews. Nor, he argues, is there transparency in how disputes between universities and external sponsors are handled when students are caught in the middle. SBBS, he says, informed him that it does not maintain direct communication channels with IPN. Meanwhile, he says IPN indicated that information about his performance had been relayed by the university, though he has not been shown the specific basis for that claim.
Student newspaper covering the shameful treatment of our Mexican post-graduate students & how @qmul.bsky.social is failing them through a questionable partnership that does not seem to have adequate oversight.
Angel’s case. Sadly, more to come
Full article: www.theprintqmul.co.uk/post/bullied...
This is well worth a listen, especially if you’re a fan of Marlowe. Loved the first episode.
More on the state of British academia.
Such cruelty and brutalisation effected through these processes that are dismantling disciplines and universities in the face of governmental indifference
Last month I had the pleasure of recording a segment for this 10-part essay series on BBC Radio 3 with the one and only @jerrybrotton.bsky.social . 'The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe' starts tonight - don’t miss it; it promises to be sensational. 🕵️
I'm in it too 😎
Bravo @jerrybrotton.bsky.social and Melissa - the series is gripping from the first minute 👏
see my previous: FABULOUS #EarlyModern scholars.
What a team you gals make!
*waves*
I *think* I'll be in ep 4 on Thursday. It was @oldfortunatus.bsky.social tonight :)
Ssshh … I’m in Episode 3 🤗
this is glorious! I've been thinking I need to cut my hair shorter and you make it look so incredibly chique.
1: all the portfolio categories used by consultants all over
2: what is all this 'these are challenging times for OUR university' and 'navigating uncertain times together' while kicking out colleagues in the three-figures?
3: 'bright future'? 'Make-or-break'? CUTTING STAFF DIDN'T SOLVE IT DID IT.
OOOOOOO! That's @qmulhss.bsky.social's very own Jerry Brotton! (and, I have sneaking suspicion, a bunch of cool #EarlyModern scholars!) #SkyStorians
Higher Education in the 2020s, ladies and gentlemen.
No one will save us. We have to save ourselves.
📣 Mercedes García Arenal will be at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on April 29, 3.30-5.30 !
Thanks to Julian Weiss, will have the privilege to hear an extended version of her Lyell Lecture. Responses from Rachel Scott, @samsonaws.bsky.social and myself !
Book your ticket here: lnkd.in/etsE997i
😆 for a moment there I wondered if there was a permutation of the Baked Alaska I wasn't aware of.
But, yeah, the English terms for those countries make no sense and I too would like a word with whoever decided on that.
ah, the vagaries of the internet. I never really know what gets people to repost/like. There isn't much consistency on making the QT more personal or less, or more hashtagged or less. On the other site I could play the algorithm and the timing a little, but not here...
Which I didn't know about until my google earlier! And it was supersuccessful in France. Calls for an occupation of the campus cinema, methinks. (but I didn't immediately see much racebending in there?)
(e.g.: anything that should be added to the @qmucu.bsky.social webpage? Anytime there is a petition or hardshipfund or similar)
Appalling. Cruelty built in. If HR remembered what the 'H' stood for they would run these processes completely differently and still have 'saved' the same amount on their payroll. It's the disdain for staff that they can't shake.
I'm so sorry, much solidarity, and yell for whatever we can do
It immediately entered my list of favourite episodes, genuinely lovely conversation.
And I, too, am mystified and eagerly googled if something new was coming but can't immediately see anything. Maybe he's just finally caught the glory that is the series on BBC iplayer?
oh, wildly so. The 'Free Speech' brigade is only ever for themselves, not for meaningful conversation and challenge.
Of course, anyone expressing a desire for justice for Palestine will still be persecuted and silenced by this government. Their ‘free speech’ is still ideologically defined two defend the powerful.
On that note, really loved @gregjenner.bsky.social's You're Dead To Me episode on Alexandre Dumas with @historianmemory.bsky.social & Celya AB
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
You'd only know it if you consulted the public record, so here it is: lordslibrary.parliament.uk/office-for-s...
The Office for Students was only ever the "I want to be wildly offensive and not face any consequences for my bigotry" office (cf: Toby Young being handpicked to lead it) but, dear god, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, you don't have better things to do?
Multiple universities on the verge of collapse.
The post-Dearing project failed – not because it was implemented badly, although it was; not because it was underfunded, although it was. It failed because its mechanics were broken from the start. Like a badly-wired plug, it operated, but the longer it did so, the more likely it would spark. The current financial state of the sector suggests that, somewhere, the fire has already begun. English higher education has demonstrated that it has the power to change lives, enhance communities, spread prosperity, and stimulate transformation. But everywhere those benefits are achieved, it is in spite of the state/HE nexus, not because of it; driven by the altruism of public service, not the advancement of private interest.
"successive governments have attempted to manage the system through a single mechanism: student choice driving competition between providers. This mechanism has failed, by every metric its architects set for it, and its failure is structural, not incidental."
#UKHE post18.co.uk/blood-debt-t...
One day, one day. It keeps moving around (sometimes in September, sometimes in Spring). So hopefully it will shortly be the right timing.
Royal Commission. Royal Commission now. I'll happily run it... (if I can get a little gilded crown on my stationary)