Paula Anne

HE Information Professional. All witterings here, bar RTs, my own .... accused of “dropping truth bombs” Actually made in Chelsea.

[Paula Anne @Beauvale3]

I’ve been thinking about my late Aunty Mary a lot just lately. https://t.co/vhEwOmtauO

[Paula Anne @Beauvale3]

Save The Lammermuirs - Stop The Data Centre - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/gJ4vkA1GDS via @UKChange

[Paula Anne @Beauvale3]

If they do it for TPS, they’ll do it to USS.

[UCU @ucu]

UCU today called on ministers to take urgent action to safeguard pensions in higher education, warning that failure to act risks “irreparable damage” to the sector.

Universities up and down the country are looking to downgrade staff pension benefits. Read @drjogrady’s letter to the Education Secretary and Skills Minister 👇

[UCU @ucu]

Meningitis cases are rising in Kent. The University of Kent has acted. Canterbury Christ Church has not.

UCU has told every member at CCCU: if you don’t feel safe, stay home.

We’re calling on management to confirm in writing that no staff will face disciplinary action for working remotely and on the government to expand the vaccination programme now.

https://t.co/tG7jHNIy2t

[University of Nottingham UCU branch @UoNUCU]

Hey, remember when our vice chancellor said "the compact … that you weren't going to earn very much money, but you had a secure job for life in a comfortable environment without a heavy workload - that's gone”? Because we do! And we reached out to ask her about it.

[Louise Hosie @louise_hosie]

Staff at @aberdeenuni have gone on strike in an ongoing dispute over cuts.
The @ucu said the 4 planned days of walkouts were a last resort, but they had been left with no option.
The university described the strike action as “disappointing”.

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

“The decline in library staffing across England is one of the most damaging findings of UNISON’s research -
between 2010 & 2024, staffing levels fell by 47% at the 132 authorities in England - a loss of 8,406 full-time equivalent posts.” Devastating 😔

[UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT! @UCUNUbranch]

And the alternative is an indefinite pay freeze. That's why @UCUNUbranch is on strike again March 16, 17, 25, 26, 27.

[UCU @ucu]

🚨 443 jobs gone in two years. Compulsory redundancies still on the table.

Aberdeen University staff don’t want to be on the picket line, they want to be teaching but management has left them no choice.

Four days of strikes start today. ✊

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research-intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution, reports @JulietteRowsell
https://t.co/SRHMum2gJU

[21group @21percentgroup]

Glasgow Caledonian University's New York campus struggled to obtain a licence, lost large amounts of money & didn't attract many students

Widely seen as disastrous international expansion project

Now staff pay the price as there are redundancies at GCU

https://t.co/OBM1TENPmz

[University of Nottingham UCU branch @UoNUCU]

In an unprecedented move, one reflective of these deeply unprecedented times, UoN branches of three different unions (@UCU, @unisonuon, and @unite_uon) have all successfully passed motions of no confidence in the Vice Chancellor and the entire executive board.

[Paula Anne @Beauvale3]

When you DO NOT know or have a direct answer WORD SALAD is not the way to go ….. 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

“We’re going to stop the government funding dead end university courses”

Shadow education secretary Laura Trott says her party would stop funding courses that “don’t deliver for young people” citing some creative arts courses as an example

#BBCLauraK https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k

[Bruce E. Baker @BruceHistorian]

We've heard a lot about the importance of not having cold spots for subjects within a region (but not necessarily each university), which makes everyone nervous. Our redundancies are coming after the restructuring, so probably next autumn.

[Paula Anne @Beauvale3]

@BettinaSRoss1 Even more bizarre - if you weren’t learning German, you weren’t in the top class.

[Vinyl Sundays @sunday_vinyl]

The event page for December's Legendary Christmas Extravaganza is now live!

https://t.co/zEGgAKZ389

[Paula Anne @Beauvale3]

@ScarredForLife2 That version of Bungle is straight out of Singing Ringing Tree vibes. [*shudders*].

[Paula Anne @Beauvale3]

Danny Kruger really needs to look at any election leaflet from his party. This is from a recent District Council election. The only tax I’m aware that they have power over is the Council Tax, ergo their candidate (who was elected) was on a platform to cut council tax! #BBCQT

[James Brackley @BrackleyJ]

Huge thank you to the 36 Accounting, Finance and Local Government experts who signed our open letter covered in the @FinancialTimes & @birmingham_live today 👇 The letter calls for a public inquiry into the absolute scandal that was the Birmingham City Council bankruptcy 🧵

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[Paula Anne @Beauvale3]

@BettinaSRoss1 Absolutely. My end is tethering and my eyes can’t roll any further back in their sockets.