As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

Why does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Martin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing. Academic sources have ...

Staff at Edinburgh University have been told that they must cover for their boycotting colleagues or go without pay themselves.

On Britain’s universities.

Resource List ResourceDescriptionExcerptDeb Verhoeven and Ben Eltham. “Nousferatu”: Are corporate consultants extracting the lifeblood from universities?Analysis of the ‘vampiric’ tende…

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Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie, From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland, 17 February

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X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

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SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.

Dear students, UCU Edinburgh will again be going on strike Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th November as a result of University management’s refusal to commit to no compulsory redundancie...