Henry Jones

Associate Prof at Durham Law School. Research interests: History, theory and spatiality of international law. Personal interests: everything else.

[Laura Pidcock @LauraPidcock]

These two stories say A LOT about Starmer’s government.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Durham expects 200 jobs to go as it seeks to save £20 million

University becomes latest to announce staff cuts, saying it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies https://t.co/mn2XCMizLx

[Queen Mary UCU @qm_ucu]

Taking on bank loans to deal with savings justified by previous bank loans.

But we don't need an urgent change to the finance AND GOVERNANCE system of universities... 🙄
https://t.co/v55VTJRu5r

[Feyzi Ismail @phaisie]

‘The question needs to be asked why the leadership of UCU is unable to show the imagination or creativity of branches… Disputes are being treated in isolation and there has been no attempt to draw them together into a campaign.’ @counterfireorg #HEcrisis https://t.co/F6xq620o0O

[Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social @NewcastleUniUCU]

We did a little table, based on the annual reports, on the number of people earning over £100.000 a year. We're still waiting for the 23-24 numbers, but we see a trend....

[Lisa Tilley @Tilley101]

The real crisis in academia is the bloating at the top - overpaid managers who squeeze surplus value out of students & workers while inventing ways to increase workload to justify their own overpaid positions.

[Bruce E. Baker @BruceHistorian]

Also announcing a doubling of teaching workload since there will be no "unfunded" research. So unless you're lucky enough to get external funding, it's teaching-only for you. A real shame that the Framework Agreement was never understood or defended years ago.

[Dr Jack Hodgson @hodgepodge96]

Newcastle is the latest to go to this model of no unfunded research to reduce staff. The Russell Group marketing sham will still promote it as a research-intensive institution. Staff will also have to publish for their careers. This will be unpaid, out of hours work.

[Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social @NewcastleUniUCU]

Newcastle University announcing 300 FTE redundancies. Come to the EGM tomorrow (Wed 1pm) and as we saw this coming, our ballot opened yesterday - vote as soon as it arrives (by post). We will be fighting this, and join forces with the other two campus unions UNITE and UNISON

[UCU Northern Region @UCUNorthern]

#LiftTheBan

The University of Sunderland has told staff who are at risk of redundancy that they cannot talk about it:

‘no discussions with students, alumni or colleagues’.

Please sign and share this petition to get this decision reversed👇

https://t.co/iOHCslExd1

[Durham University @durham_uni]

Don't miss Durham’s Professor @cmgerrard1 and researcher @johncastling on BBC's Digging for Britain, 8pm, @BBCTwo. Tune in for this fascinating glimpse into 17th-century #Britain.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/GVEOSzy1HL

Also available on @BBCiPlayer. @ArcDurham @aucklandproject

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

the British derisking state, promising to partner with AI firms while doling out more austerity for public services and calling it the 'golden age of public service reform'

[Karl Marx @marxhaunting]

He works that he may keep alive. He does not count the labor itself as a part of his life; it is rather a sacrifice of his life. It is a commodity that he has auctioned off to another.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Best headline of 2024? 😂

“And it wouldn't be surpising
If there'd be another rising”

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

“Scholasticidal tendencies, as we call them, manifest in four key ways: silence, the suppression of solidarity, ‘complex’ or ‘nuanced’ arguments, and the threat of theories.” Important read about complicity with the erasure of Palestine at the university and in academic spaces.

[Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon]

The thing that has struck me most in around 15 years of academia is that good citizenship and solidarity are looked down upon

Sycophancy, obedience to hierarchy, classism and ruthless individualism are far more valued (which is unsurprising given how conservative a milieu it is)

[Briggs on Beer @BriggsonBeer]

An excellent, article by @DrBlacklock in today’s @guardian. It makes you aware of Humphrey Smith’s iron fisted grip&influential power throughout his property estate. Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain https://t.co/ESNxnK2iFv

[Liesel Łempicka 🏳️‍🌈🧡💙🎓 ♿️☮️ 🇵🇸 @EmpickaLiesel]

“to talk about migrants as only a burden to this country, here on a scam, is the kind of language that people like me are used to catching after last orders on streets that suddenly don’t feel so safe. To hear them from our prime minister should shame him and his party.”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@LJIL_Leiden This article is normalising the illegal. How can you ever present yourself as an education entity on international law. Please make a favour to yourself and withdraw this article.