edumemeUK

News and occasional commentary on UK higher education.

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

PM: A-level results are robust and dependable.
Translation: You can depend on us to give the disadvantaged a robust kicking.

https://t.co/WtZ1qqvmXw

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

University of California system mandates seasonal flu vaccination for all staff and students. This is a policy worth replicating in the UK, with universities providing free vaccinations on campus (and not just for this year).

https://t.co/pRqpkAhP8x

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

Covid-19 risk mitigation policies for the reopening of campuses may well be 'fantasy documents' if they ignore the realities of young people's treatment of risk.

The consequences will not be equally shouldered.

https://t.co/Pcvklvoi8E

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

US unis increasingly moving to online teaching for the coming semester. It is interesting to compare the reports from the USA versus those in the UK about students’ return to campus.

Will this abundance of caution belatedly come to the UK in six weeks?

https://t.co/cXnQdWw0wW

[CDBU @cdbuni]

‘It is a case of a highly individualist culture paying the price of its own extreme.’

Read Professor Simon Marginson’s piece here ➡️ https://t.co/Dn93hrKCvX

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

The Marketisation of English universities could make them catalysts of the second wave. Online education is not perfect, but it can help us get through this.

https://t.co/Ydn6U6JdOS

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

Bill Galvin on #USS: "Academics need to give more to fill pension hole" (https://t.co/4xB0EaS5IP).

This is from the man who got an under-performance bonus (https://t.co/zbmot26sDo).

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

#USS group CEO underperforms and gets a £212000 bonus. Time to turn up the pressure of USS governance reform.

https://t.co/9IypI4msX1

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

@RevolutApp Seems teh only way to do this is to set up a new twitter account to contact @RevolutApp when their App is broken. This has been done. It is @BrokenRevolut

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

@RevolutApp - Revolut locked the account of one of our team 5 days ago. Five days waiting for proof of funds documents to be processed. Four days and the app has been "Looking for an agent ..." Why do customers need public social media accounts to get service?

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

@RevolutApp Twitter won't allow us to follow any more accounts.

If your app has been "Looking for an agent ..." for days and someone doesn't want to contact you with their real name in public social media, there is problem. What do you suggest?

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

UUK said: “Suspension of this action would be a huge relief to students ahead of the main exam period.”

https://t.co/wfANtxpqeI

UUK mean: “VCs can can get on with raising debt to ensure that DB pensions are unaffordable, whatever the agreed valuation method.” #USSstrike

[#OccupyTheOctagon @qmoccupy]

Professor Richard Falk (UN special rapporteur for Palestinian human rights), Professor Hilal Elver (UN Special rapporteur on the right to food), and Jeremy Keenan (Professor in social anthropology) stopped over during our demo and offered their support! #OccupyTheOctagon

[UK HE International @UKhigherEd]

We are not in dispute with #USS, but question their valuation. We are not in dispute #UUK, however unaccountable.

We are in dispute with our employers.

They were asked a simple question: will you honour your pension promise? They said 'no' and under the bus we go. #USSstrike

[Martin O'Neill @martin_oneill]

Here's a THREAD on the #USS Trustees, powerful individuals whose role has been insufficiently examined, and who have been operating without the full benefits of public scrutiny.

#USSstrikes #USSstrike #WeAreTheUniversity #StrikeForUSS #DemocratiseUSS #DemocratizeUSS

👇👇👇

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

We ask that the appropriate Government Minister make an order under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Section 5(1) designating Universities UK as a public authority, so making Universities UK subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

https://t.co/lM2uN2jkVh

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

And a must read for UK university students. Direct anger at management and the system that is undercutting everyone’s pay and pensions (VCs excepted). https://t.co/Qwo1TALvj3

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A must read for university students, staff and management. https://t.co/xVSW3CV59a

[edumemeUK @edumemeUK]

Next week’s march in London. 28/2, 1200 Malet Street, London. https://t.co/KGg46KKZri

[Lee Jones @DrLeeJones]

More student support for #QMULstrike. Students demand @QMUL bosses return to talks and "stand by all staff members".
https://t.co/OMJUyRoSzp