Thread by @AstonUCU, Thanks to everyone for supporting our @ucu @astonucu campaign against closing History, [...]

Thanks to everyone for supporting our @ucu @astonucu campaign against closing History, Languages, and Translation Studies @AstonSSH

Interested in what may be behind this?

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1/11

First some context. Here& #39;s @PrivateEyeNews with an overview
At stake here are jobs, student programmes, and student outreach in schools @ucml
2/11

But there& #39;s even more to it than this. What do we discover?

@AstonUniversity and @LSBU are launching a report on ‘the potential of Universities of Technology’
LSBU are also currently consulting to close humanities degrees.
We assume this is not a co-incidence.

3/11

When are they doing this? On 10 May - the day our consultation closes.
Who is facilitating this?

Step forward @UKLabour in the shape of @KateGreenSU!

But wait, there& #39;s more.

Who is running this show? None other than @PublicFirst_PF!

That& #39;s Public First, PR firm run by co-author of the 2019 Tory manifesto and whose ethical practices are...

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Revealed: Key Cummings and Gove ally given COVID-19 contract without open tender

Cabinet Office accused of breaching rules after handing £840,000 contract to PR firm run by co-author of the 2019 Tory manifesto for focus groups initially listed as 'EU Exit Comms'.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-key-cummings-ally-given-840000-covid-contract-without-competition/

Well, you could knock us down!

(in fact, that& #39;s exactly what& #39;s happening to our colleagues in History, Languages, and Translation Studies)

6/11

So what& #39;s going on here?

Is Aston strategy to voluntarily become the first pre-1992 institution to become a ‘polytechnic’?

What& #39;s the relationship between Aston and LSBU?
Just good friends or... something more?
7/11

Most importantly - is this the kind of behaviour you’d associated with the & #39;University of the Year& #39;?

@GdnUniversities @AnnaFazack1 @rachela_hall @AlfiePackham @aston_union

8/11

You may well want to sign up and ask these questions at the event on 10 May, we couldn’t possibly comment...

http://www.publicfirst.co.uk/truly-modern-technical-education.html
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Truly Modern Technical Education - Public First

Public First will be hosting an event to launch a new report from London South Bank University and Aston University which looks at how we [...]

http://www.publicfirst.co.uk/truly-modern-technical-education.html

Meanwhile, our petition is now at nearly 6000 signatures!

Please encourage people in your network to sign

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Defend History and Language provision at Aston University

Aston University has announced sweeping plans to close a whole host of programmes and services which will hugely impact language and humanities provision at the institution. This includes closing the...

https://speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/defend-history-and-language-provision-at-aston-university/

And really @UKLabour - what on earth is going on?

Is getting rid of Humanities the type of university system you support?

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