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MarginalScribb1
One thing that never fails to both amaze and amuse me, is how all these people will say 'Mainlanders are ignorant about the NE', but then turn around and demonstrate
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Heidi Li Feldman
HeidiLiFeldman
The heavy handed waivers are not the only problem facing faculty and students at colleges and universities right now. 1/ Despite surging Covid-19 throughout the country, universities and colleges are
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Andrew McGettigan
amcgettigan
I haven't seen it mentioned publicly yet, but there's an extra dimension to this crisis for English universities: debt covenants, particularly debt cover ratios & minimum surplus requirements. In particularly
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Tom Whyman
HealthUntoDeath
Degree courses should only be allowed to exist if associated with strong graduate employment outcomes. And now to continue flicking this random switch on and off despite it not being
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Dr Emma Beckett
synapse101
Is the Australian government going to save Australian Universities yet or are we just damning the future & throwing all the clever people away? ok cool... (not cool) We aren’t
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Jakub Janda
_JakubJanda
THREAD:@EU_Commission has published first guidelines on protecting universities & research organizations from foreign interference. It mainly targets China.Similar process is being done by the Australian government, it is more detailed.Full
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Kathleen
la_Luchona_
I'm reading Davarian Baldwin's In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower, a study in the extractive relationship between universities and their surrounding neighborhoods. One of the ways universities extract wealth
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Antonio García Martínez
antoniogm
COVID-19 will turn out to be a global accelerant to pre-existing trends that inertia was braking:Expensive universities with mediocre education->mostly goneIn-store retail->reducedDefault expensive office space for white-collar work->reduced
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Richard Easther
REasther
Super important thread -- which unpacks the twaddle being pedalled by the @MasseyUni Vice Chancellor, and tracks it to its source. (By my oath, it's always lovely to watch someone
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Jonathan Ladd
jonmladd
One reason pundits' criticisms of professors lead to dysfunctional conversations is that pundits view the criticism as punching up and many professors view the criticism as punching down. I'll try
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🎻🖊️DeMisty D. Bellinger
DeMistyB
1. Have serious/not smart person questions: If we have recommendations for institutions to open up and social distance, how do we get to the space of distancing? How do we
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Lee Jones
DrLeeJones
Lots of people are probably wondering why UK governments were/are reluctant simply to use teachers' predicted grades for #Alevelresults.My @Cieothinks report on UK universities with @thephilippics, published this week, provides
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Jo Grady
DrJoGrady
So committed to ‘free speech' the government bailout includes stipulations on what universities will not be allowed to teachhttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jul/16/english-universities-must-prove-commitment-to-free-speech-fo
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Dr Muhammad Ali
Thecolistin
I had my schooling from one of the elite private schools. My father though not in position to comfortably afford it but we made do, partly by getting merit scholarships
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Razorblade Snowflake (Keffy R.M. Kehrli)
Keffy
HI I know that we're super busy but if you're calling your congress people, can you PLEASE also complain to them about this: https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/international-students-may-need-to-leave-u-s-if-their-universities-transi
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punkacademic
punk_academic
If anyone had any doubt that the intention of the marketisation project was to set up students and staff in opposition to one another as adversaries in a consumer system,
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