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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The British university mess is so clearly what happens when the incentives of the people administering and consulting on the system bear no relation to those of anyone actually working in it
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
More information on our latest and last CCR challenge lshubwales.com/news/innovat...
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Innovative Single-Use Endoscopy Technology Tackles NHS Waiting Lists | Life Sciences
IQ Endoscopes introduced a single-use diagnostic tool to address the growing demand for endoscopy procedures in the NHS, particularly reducing waiting times.
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Leighton Andrews @leightonandrews.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Last time of promoting this - next week, we publish our alternative for Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd ukania.substack.com/p/a-critique...
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A critique of Cardiff University's plans.
Redacted, revised and abridged.
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CCR Challenge Fund @ccrchallenge.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
After four years, the current phase of the CCR Challenge Fund is coming to an end, but we are very proud of what we have achieved through our work during this time. Watch the video to find out more about the impact of the CCR Challenge Fund:
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CCR Challenge Fund- impact to date
YouTube video by CCR Challenge Fund
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
big scoop from @georgewparker.bsky.social “English university is set to be fined a record £585,000 over allegations it failed to uphold free speech and academic freedom, in a landmark ruling in the debate over student rights on campus”
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CCR Challenge Fund @ccrchallenge.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Find out from our case study video how IQ Endoscopes are working with @cavuhb.bsky.social and @cedarcardiff.bsky.social in the last phase of the Endoscopy Challenge @zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
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Endoscopy Challenge, part 2 (Eng subs)
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is a great example of the challenge-led innovation we have been supporting in collaboration with @ccrchallenge.bsky.social #innovation #mission
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CCR Challenge Fund @ccrchallenge.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Our recent #MissionsInAction event (21 Feb) featured case studies of real-life mission-led/challenge-based activity. Did you miss it? Find out more and watch all the presentations on our website: www.challengefund.wales/news/mission...
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Missions in Action, 21 Feb- event highlights
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A lot can happen in 20 years
Chart from The Economist showing which countries share greater trade with the US and China. In 2000 about 80% of countries shared greater trade with the US; by 2020 it was only around 27%
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Important critique of how the ‘transformation process’ that is engulfing Cardiff University is being managed. We should debate the what but not the how of organizational change. The twin harms of reputational damage and to staff wellbeing must be minimised.
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Leighton Andrews @leightonandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I talk about why academics in Cardiff University are angry, why I’ve voted for a strike, and higher education policy more generally from about 15 minutes in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Sunday Supplement - Ukraine, Higher Education, a new electoral map, Covid remembrance, the Law Society at 200 - BBC Sounds
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.
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Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In 2004, defence accounted for > 30% of UK govt R&D spending; in 2022 it stood at 13%. An important graph for appreciating the scale of changes to the UK’s science & innovation landscape that geopolitics is likely to dictate, as the “peace dividend” unwinds
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Universities are: successful exports, magically avoiding trade barriers. The buyers come here and give you £! They are also spreaders of our values and way of life abroad. They are great ways of levelling up as a campus does not need to be in the South.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The Welsh university system is in such dire straits. For a small, mostly rural country that needs economic growth, and is trying to build a sense of itself, that's a disaster. Yet the whole reaction (unlike steel) is like *shrugs shoulders, whatever*. I don't get it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University applications drop leading to economy concerns
Wales will be at an
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Agolf Twitler Slayer @slayeragolf.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Great gesture
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Here's the crazed madness of British Higher Education policy: there's a big demand to do Engineering, but unis can't afford to offer more places. Utterly maddening. Stupid, dumb as rocks country. 🇬🇧
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.
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Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Hey industrial relations people (labo(u)r relations, unions etc.). This looks like a great network.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Totally agree with this. If there isn't a major course correction there won't be much left of Welsh Higher Education by the end of the decade. It's in even worse shape than the HE 'system' in the rest of the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Call for major review of Welsh higher education
Plaid Cymru call for a review of how universities are funded follows redundancy plan at Cardiff University.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Today's universities slashing and burning have been Brunel and Edinburgh. As the crisis deepens, there'll be multiple news like this most days. Remember: you can't cut your way to safety, it's impossible.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend: *Centralise functions *Cut small courses *Reduce student options *Abolish loads of joint awards *Chop staff headcount This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)
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Centre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS) @cgrisbath.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
@cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers on Re-emergence of #IndustrialStrategy edited by @dgbailey.bsky.social @gretegans.bsky.social @lisadepropris.bsky.social and @cgrisbath.bsky.social Co-Director @prt1969.bsky.social Please share widely 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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The Re-emergence of Industrial Strategy
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Phil Tomlinson @prt1969.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Do you have a research paper on #coworkingspaces #thirdspaces? See @cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers. Special Issue edited by @fmfai.bsky.social & Ilaria Mariotti 👇🏼 @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social @edwardyates.bsky.social
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Very good advice here for all those university colleagues now facing redundancy. Do have a look also if you can feel the crisis getting nearer and nearer. 👇
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
An entirely new financial settlement is needed in Higher Education - as many of us have been saying all along. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Interesting piece
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CCR Challenge Fund @ccrchallenge.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Congratulations to IQ Endoscopes for securing major new funding! The company's work is also supported through our #EndoscopyChallenge with @cavuhb.bsky.social @cedarcardiff.bsky.social @zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
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Medical device business secures multimillion-pound funding from BGF and Development Bank of Wales - Insider Media
A South Wales-based medical device business has secured multimillion-pound funding from BGF and Development Bank of Wales.
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
From acorns… great to see the progress being made by one of one of our @ccrchallenge.bsky.social innovators
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is tragic. Michael was an inspiration and had many friends @cardiffunilib.bsky.social Thank you and RIP
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
‘We have to get over the feeling that any failed pilot is a waste of money. It is not, as long as you've learned something by doing it.’ NAO chief Gareth Davies on the need for innovation in public services and how the NAO will support this www.thetimes.com/article/9e71...
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UK public services ‘too expensive and not good enough’
As demand outstrips budgets, the head of the National Audit Office calls for Whitehall to take risks and innovate — but to learn quickly from its failures
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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Welsh Government “very disappointed” that nursing course on list of cuts ‘WalesOnline asked Cardiff University and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board whether they had discussed the proposed axing of the Cardiff University school of nursing ... So far neither has responded to those questions.’
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You can track the unfolding disaster at Cardiff University here LIVE, as one of the UK's constituent nations actually chooses to gut parts of its flagship HEI: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
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Cardiff University job cuts as 400 roles go and courses axed – live
Staff say they are in shock as nursing, modern languages, and music are among degrees being axed with 400 jobs academic jobs at risk
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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Context: today Cardiff University announce proposals for 400 redundancies, including 15 in School of Geography, which will also be merged with school of social sciences...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Best of 2024: New British Academy interactive maps reveal cold spots in social sciences, humanities and arts in UK higher education – especially affecting disadvantaged students. Ruairí Cullen explains
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There are cold spots in arts, humanities, and social sciences provision
New British Academy interactive maps reveal cold spots in social sciences, humanities and arts in UK higher education – especially affecting disadvantaged students. Ruairí Cullen explains
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Universities oversee strategic state infrastructure. They should never, ever have been put in charge of all that without much stronger strategic oversight: nor should Senior Management Teams have been unfairly loaded with tasks far, far beyond their pay grade. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
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Dundee University dental school merger paused after principal's abrupt exit
Staff were told plans for a merger had been put on ice hours after Iain Gillespie's sudden resignation was announced.
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Cracking gig last night. Thanks to @ianprowse.bsky.social and all the band and guests. See you next year!
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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Nearly ready for the latest in our Changemakers series of events on data enabled decision making. #innovation #publicservices @ccrchallenge.bsky.social
View of stage before event
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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Exciting news, organizational researchers! @orgstudies.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! And so are our co-editors-in-chief: @tzilber.bsky.social and @paoloquattrone.bsky.social
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Ian McCarthy @toffeeman68.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Some intended and unintended effects of academic incentives on research. academyhealth.org/publications...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
ICYMI we’ve launched a new beta tool using HESA data to track if university departmental closures are leading to geographical ‘cold spots’ for the availability of particular social science/humanities/arts subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...
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Mapping SHAPE provision in UK higher education
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#academicsky welcome!
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Bristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This year marks 50 years since Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital. Work in the Global Economy is celebrating with a themed issue: Doing #LabourProcessTheory and Research 50 Years On. Register for the webinar here (Nov 21, 04:30 PM): ow.ly/scZA50U7Ngq #LaborStudies
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Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Agree, well worth a read
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
'The survey...recorded data from 365 institutions across 66 countries, showed enrolment fell by an average of 27% in Canada, 18% in the UK, and 6 per cent in the US. African countries reported no change, Asian countries a 4 per cent fall, and other European countries a 2 per cent increase.' 1/2
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Visa clampdowns put brakes on international student mobility
Global survey finds that 41 per cent of institutions reported fewer international postgraduate students in this year’s intake compared to 2023
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The Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) Hub @lpiphub.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A new report by Dr Kostas Kollydas for the Local Innovation Policy Partnership Hub summarises skills policy across the UK and draws key learnings from place-based interventions related to skills. shorturl.at/2JLfh
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