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Dr Natalie Robinson 🇳🇿 @polargirlnz.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

😭 "Wellington's Victoria University is axing 229 jobs... The institution will no longer offer Greek, Latin, Italian, geophysics, geographic information science or physical geography." Earth Sciences, Physics, and Music also at risk of the same fate. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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'Devastated': Victoria University axes 229 jobs and six courses

Wellington's Victoria University is axing 229 jobs and cutting six language and geo-science courses in an effort to save money.

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♿Smollestbunny/hiding from plagues @smollestbunny.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Only subjects that can be used to generate more capital for capitalists via their workers will be kept. Education under capitalism doesn't work.

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

What the fuck is the point of the place of it chops all those then??

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FlamingAim @flamingaim.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

That is madness. My school leaver wanted to study there next year but it looks like it is getting stripped.

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Shameful. University is the place to both learn and create the insights that these fields are comprised of in the first place. Dismantling these will only make us blind. Ive seen enough in the last few years to recognise blindness makes the difference between unsolvable and solvable global problems

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The Fox With The Rocks @marshthefox.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Ah yes, let's give languages and which pretty much any one can learn on their own with determination the same axe we give vital geology courses. I've said it before and I'll say it again, traditional geology is becoming dangerously neglected in a world dependent on it.

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Crafty māmā 🍉🌷🧵🧶🐈‍⬛ | ❤️🤍🖤 @kelsew.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Midwifery! When we need more?!! The school of music which produces some amazing talent???!! Workplace HSW too????? This seems ridiculously short-sighted

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Crafty māmā 🍉🌷🧵🧶🐈‍⬛ | ❤️🤍🖤 @kelsew.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Oh sweet cheesuz. That's quite a gutting.

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Jack Muir @jackbmuir.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

If any city needs local specialist geophysics education, it's Wellington!

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Michael Harris @michaelsharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

That’s a sizeable chunk of any mid-tier university workforce.

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