Alan Bates' mistake was trying to get a meeting with the Post Office minister instead of a Grindr hook-up with a Tory MP

What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

News from Australia.
- Rising demand for arts degrees DESPITE discriminatory fee structures
- Humanities grad employment rates up from 81.7% in 2021 to 86.6% in 2022
- Median grad salaries at $66,700 (vs STEMM at $66,000 and business and management $65,000 theguardian.com/australia-news…

🚨🚨🚨 University of York Vice-Chancellor says half of all universities are cutting jobs and courses. What that means is that the prospectus you or your kids sign up for may be nothing like what you get. Are you happy with that? 🚨🚨🚨

The gap between the *actually existing university* and the one the public, civil servants, Spads and politicians imagine is now so wide as to be unbridgeable. That's one reason I'm not optimistic about a rescue job.

Universities are educational communities. They do not have, and must not have:
*A 'brand' or brands;
*Internal quasi-markets;
*Complex financial engineering;
*Competitive logics;
*Quantitative targets;
*Justification via social capital.
If they do, they are not universities.

Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made.” They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, government subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures. Can we stop perpetuating a myth that blames wealth inequality on the choices of everyday Americans?

'it was not clear how that initial selection had been carried out, since there was no documentation, other than the matrix, which had been overwritten during the consultation process'

Dr D Harvie and Others v University of Leicester - the judgement:

gov.uk/employment-tri…

Q: Who Found a Way to Crack the U.K.’s Premier Quiz Show? nytimes.com/2024/04/07/bus…

Invited to address a conference in Berlin about my work in Gaza hospitals during the present conflict.
The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country
Silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany's complicity in the ongoing massacre.

Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
thx

Ministers ‘boast about how well Britain’s creative industries are doing and how many billions they contribute to the economy. Yet they seem … incapable of making the connection between growing this sector and educating the future workforce it needs.’ ⁩ thetimes.co.uk/article/richar…

US: wild big tech promotion of enterprise AI in schools, supported by entrepreneurial influencers, edtech industry and investor capitalization, cautiously optimistic Dept of Ed support, calls for regulatory controls ...

UK: desperate Dept for Ed solutionist support to 'solve' school austerity it created, network ties between AIED research, local edtech and Tory party, investors want UK to be seen as Siliconshire for education, zero regulation or quality control ...

We found out today that the university has cut heating down to 16*C as a non-pay saving measure - truly NO ONE and NOTHING is SAFE from the cuts! Students and staff are wearing coats and hats in classrooms and offices. Meanwhile, the VC’s office is apparently blocked at 22…

The DfE has refused to fund the 5% rise in employers’ contributions to the TPS for higher education institutions UCU

Many university employers already face severe financial difficulties

Govts refusal to intervene puts thousands of jobs on the line

My letter to the Minister👇

This is very bad news. We read here that Universities UK has already written to the government requesting that post-92 universities be allowed to leave this defined benefit pension scheme, since the DfE has refused to fund the 5% rise in employers' contributions.

Funny how wealthy Americans will readily accuse Biden of “buying votes” with student debt forgiveness but had no issue with Trump signing massive tax cuts for themselves. Hello?

Loads of 'em

I VC, 1 Provost, 1 Deputy Provost, 1 Vice Provost, 5 Deputy VCs, 1 Associate Pro-VC, 1 Chief People Officer, 12 Pro-VCs, 3 Deputy VCs, 1 Group Registrar

All with PAs

coventry.ac.uk/the-university…

The number of UK universities announcing redundancies has now reached 49 and will climb much further. You were warned and warned and warned.
qmucu.org/qmul-transform…