Happy International Women's Day to my sister Hind, who is now pregnant and very hungry in Jabalia in Northern Gaza. Her suffering, my mum's suffering and my two other sisters who are all in tents, must end now. Palestinian women need you, please help.

Notice served. 18.5 years' loyal service, five books with leading publishers, 6th and 7th on the way, an international prize, two massive grants, loads of 'impact' work, glowing teaching reports. Need another job. Surely someone would value all this. Please spread the word.

Fantastic to see our new SKOPE and Education Policy Institute report on post-16 E&T across the UK out. It highlights key areas of policy divergence and some stark inequalities in participation and outcomes. Department of Education, University of Oxford Association of Colleges (AoC) WorldSkills UK The Edge Foundation

In our continuous exploration of intellectual wellbeing in education, Patrick Alexander and I suggest a framework for rethinking professional learning through an ecological lens in this recent article. We argue that cultivating true intellectual wellbeing requires moving beyond…

Never forget that the generation who imposed fees, loans & debt on us & our students went to uni for free & received a grant to do so.

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“As an education union, we utterly condemn the way Israel is systematically destroying the entire education system in Gaza – from nurseries to world-leading research facilities.”

Our President Justine Mercer UCU President speaking at the 250,000 strong march for Gaza in London today ✊🇵🇸

Want some weekend reading about remembrance and rituals in English schools? Thought so!

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In coming days the fate of many people at Oxford Brookes University is being decided. We want to reiterate how unjustified compulsory redundancies would be & how devastating this would be to what our university needs. Please listen to us and to proposals by those affected! #stoptheSHAMcuts

The city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, has announced the cancellation of traditional Christmas festivities in “mourning and honor” of Palestinians killed in Gaza.

'The Christmas story actually is a Palestinian story,” says Rev. Mitri Raheb.

Did you ask Krampus for an open access article exploring the importance of reparative futures thinking for reimagining education beyond the confines of racial capitalism? Thought so. Here it is! 🤘🎄🤘

‘If Education is the Key, then School is the Lock’…

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In 1984, Edward Said wrote a landmark essay, “Permission to Narrate,” in which he critiqued the Western media’s biased coverage of Israel-Palestine. Now Mohammed El-Kurd picks up where Said left off in his own essay, “The Right to Speak for Ourselves. bit.ly/46sOhPT

This destruction is genocidal.

We need to open a big debate about the future of post-1992 Unis. Several of us are threatened with redundancies and closures in arts humanities & social sciences with questionable financial arguments. Aberdeen UCU #SaveUoALanguages Brighton UCU Staffs-UCU and + to come. Stop destroying our future

The students are with us! See you there

Hi, I'm Junior, an early-career researcher and the new CYP Fellow. Completing a PhD on children's YouTube engagement, I'm passionate about visual methods. I also teach marketing at Oxford Brookes. Excited to connect with fellow enthusiasts. Shelly Coe Sarah Mitchell

Thank you to Dr Maryam Mani for speaking to our CYP network members today on inclusive urban community gardens! Such an interesting project and some good discussions had! 🍓🥔👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Shelly Coe Junior Oliveira Sarah Mitchell Oxford Brookes Research & Knowledge Exchange Oxford Brookes Public Engagement of Research

Looking forward to this talk by Dr Ali Body, today on World Children's Day 🌎 👩‍👦👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏻 Oxford Brookes Children & Young People Network Sarah Mitchell Patrick Alexander

The campaign is building! Stop the redundancies! Stop the attack on arts, humanities and social sciences! #OpenTheBooksatBrookes
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‘All ICU patients’ dead in al-Shifa amid Israel raid, according to the Hospital's director. No further comment needed. Just a question to Europe's leaders: Are you sleeping OK at night? aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…