Volunteer University

Pop-up Academy in Exeter

[Volunteer University @VolUniversity]

All we need is:
Time + Space + Coffee

[Clive Barnett @CLIVEYB]

Exeter UCU condemnation of the University payout to Vice Chancellor Professor Steve Smith and senior staff, and request for review of University governance https://t.co/GcENXx7WRy
@ExeterUCU
@UniofExeter

[Felicity Callard @felicitycallard]

Err ... UK HE is really in meltdown. Check out postings from @USSbriefs, @UUKspin etc. from the last few days. Governance, leadership, financial arrangements, role of consultancies, debts, chaos.

Truly tragic, when one considers where & on whom the pain will fall #LoveHE

[Dr Liz Morrish @lizmorrish]

Part of #WeAreTheUniversity is becoming familiar with university finances. Wonderfull to see this knowledge circulating.

[Civic Sociology @CivicSociology]

.@EricRoyalLybeck discusses several trends contributing to the paradox of the knowledge economy: how is it as higher education becomes more important than ever, the authority of the academic profession and experts is in decline? @OnEd_Journal

https://t.co/bxGQfaA3Eu

[Volunteer University @VolUniversity]

Anyone have a burning question you'd like to put to VCs? #VCquestiontime

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

If you could ask a v-c anything what would it be? Tweet us using #VCquestiontime. @JG_THE will pick the best of the bunch to ask our panel of v-cs at #THElive on Thursday

[USSbriefs @USSbriefs]

Tim Ingold, "On building a university for the common good" 28 Nov 2018 lecture at the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. Details in flyer #YesUniCan #UnisImprovingFutures @VolUniversity

[Bill C ☕🌰🇵🇹 @USWhipHand]

Big question. Why have universities become such engines of misery for students and staff ?

This should be the best time of students' lives.
Being an academic should be a dream job.

The opposite is true in both cases. For crying out loud, why ?

[Dr Liz Morrish @lizmorrish]

Extraordinary thread but @drspacejunk has identified precisely the problem in academia - lack of respect is endemic.

[Jo McNeill @JomcneillUCU]

Testament to every single one of us who braved snow & Baltic temperatures to pull off the biggest strike action the HE sector has ever seen! #Strikeswork #UCU #USS Now to action the motions we carried at the ‘advisory’ HESC! The members have spoken - I ‘advise’ we do as they say!

[Dr Liz Morrish @lizmorrish]

Ahem @Phil_Baty : "there was severe pressure on universities to rise up domestic league tables – which have metrics on graduates gaining good degrees – so that they can fill places".

[Josephine Cumbo @JosephineCumbo]

UPDATE on 2017 #USS valuation.

Universities UK has told me:
“Employers support the JEP’s recommendations, subject to acceptance from the USS Trustee and The Pensions Regulator, and to further information for employers on risk and its implications.”

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[UCU @ucu]

“Michael Barber’s comments demonstrate just how out of touch those in charge of our universities really are. You don’t protect students’ interests by bringing about the demise of their local university” https://t.co/uh5Y03iQdg

[Volunteer University @VolUniversity]

@LucaMorini11 @Phil_Baty @LizzieGadd @timeshighered @THEworldunirank We don't rank.

[Olivia Smith @OliveFSmith]

The universities minister always characterises universities as a 'place' and not as an entity composed of people. Reminds me of those town planning drawings without any human figures in them.

[Volunteer University @VolUniversity]

Thrilled to have made the cut on @USSbriefs' #PowerWonking list:

https://t.co/QKpob4WF65

#WeAreTheUniversity