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As a senior academic in a leading university, my line manager- a woman professor- complained when I didn't come into work the day after I had my miscarriage, asked me why I wanted more children when I already had one, and she was the poster child for #womeninacademia at this…

When I was in grad school, my son(1 yo then) ended up in the ICU with RSV for 3 nights. I missed an assignment during that time. When I explained the situation, the prof. said “you should have planned better.” I saw her post today on supporting #womeninSTEM 😑😑😑

“This has pushed the real value of the £9,250 legal fee cap in tuition fees in England to a new low of £5,929 in 2012 pounds. The tuition fee would now be over £14,000 if it had tracked the RPI.” Read Data HE article here
The way UK HEIs are losing £.
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I’m obsessed with learning how to think.

So, I spent 100+ hours studying how Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Naval Ravikant think clearly.

Here are 21 logical fallacies to avoid if you want your reasoning to be airtight:

RGU launches voluntary severance scheme. Impact of post-Brexit changes continues; bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I am so very pleased that Dibyesh Anand 🏳️‍🌈 has been appointed as our University of Westminster Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Employability and Global Engagement. Many congratulations Dibyesh! Wonderful. #WeAreWestminster

Those with mid term memory of HEI would remember the cyclic nature of boom & bust, but this time feels different. For a while Intl students propped up the fence. Now, the bottom has fallen out of the sector. We will need more than funding, maybe new generation of leaders.

I lived through academic redundancy processes during my time at Southampton. They are incredibly damaging to staff morale and mental health - everyone is affected, whether they are on the list deemed ‘at risk’ of redundancy or not. Takes years to recover the lost ground.

Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Daily Express would like to hide the fact that they’ve issued an apology to Prof Kate Sang, a UCU member that they smeared.

Let’s not allow them to do that. Please share.

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This is widely known and not surprising at all! But at least NSF is concerned and will hopefully attempt to address this. Is there a similar study by the government or UK Research and Innovation? If yes, would love to see what is being recommended for UK.

36 UK universities have so far announced plans to make redundancies - with no solution to a mounting sector-wide funding crisis in sight…

Portsmouth to cut jobs and merge faculties in ‘academic reset’ timeshighereducation.com/news/portsmout… via Times Higher Education

Breaking: UK higher education minister quits researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…