https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> 1. One thing missing from this and related stories (e.g., "£9250 for zoom lectures") is that the same issue ("£9250 for 8 hours contact") was part of the discourse pre-Covid.

This discourse is absent in countries where university education is free. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-54025181">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/educ...

2. We need to keep talking about how universities are (now) funded; what moving away (rather than doing a degree locally while living at home) offers, enables, provides (from the whole social "experience" to escape); whatlt doing a degree is & requires (e.g., independent work).

3. We& #39;ve evolved so far down the a commodified, marketized, rankings-driven path that we can& #39;t see the wood for the trees https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Laubbaum" aria-label="Emoji: Laubbaum">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌲" title="Immergrüner Baum" aria-label="Emoji: Immergrüner Baum">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Laubbaum" aria-label="Emoji: Laubbaum">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌲" title="Immergrüner Baum" aria-label="Emoji: Immergrüner Baum">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Laubbaum" aria-label="Emoji: Laubbaum">

And now, in the pandemic, universities must compete in how much in-person teaching they& #39;ll provide... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Pfeil nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach unten"> @IndependentSage https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Pfeil nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach unten">

5. And, of course, that funding - from whatever source - doesn& #39;t "just pay for 8 lectures".