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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm quoted in (and provide the headline for) this @timeshighered.bsky.social university story today. To be honest the news and messages coming from across UK Higher Ed are now so desperate, pressing and upsetting that I've stepped away a bit. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/tiered-...

timeshighereducation.com

Tiered English tuition fee system ‘would denude rest of sector’

Fallout over differential university fees suggestion continues, amid suggestions that the Russell Group head is saying the quiet part out loud

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you at #LabourConference #LabourPartyConference? If you get my book you can read all about the last time Labour were in office. A bargain! 👇

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As Labour Conference is in full swing, just a reminder that you can buy my book about the last time the party was in office! Now just £13.60 in hardback on Amazon... (1/2) www.amazon.co.uk/New-Labour-B...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'New Labour, New Britain? How the Blair governments reshaped the country' is a bold and balanced re-appraisal of New Labour in power by Prof. @gsoh31.bsky.social (Oxford Brookes). Out now and just £20 in hardback, available from all good bookshops & online. #LabourConference #booksky

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating lecture by @gsoh31.bsky.social hosted by @royalhistsoc.org at @ihr.bsky.social. Loved that Glen highlighted importance of voluntarism re work of the Central Rights of Way Ctte (CROW) & acknowledged participation of @womensinstitute.bsky.social in this work. #EnvironmentalHistory

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was great! I enormously enjoyed it and hope everyone else did too. With great appreciation and thanks to the RHS, the @ihr.bsky.social and @ukri.org for making it all happen. Much more to come on this front... Stay tuned!

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's me arriving for my first day of teaching in 2026/27! My 28th year in Higher Education. Career 73% complete, 27% remaining.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THIS FRIDAY: You can come to my @royalhistsoc.org public lecture on rights of way and the struggle for land access in England and Wales... It's at London's Senate House at 6pm. Still a few tickets left! And an online version. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

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RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THIS FRIDAY: I'll be giving a public lecture for the @royalhistsoc.org on rights of way and the struggle for the land in post-war England and Wales... It's at Senate House in London at 6pm, and there are still a few tickets left! Also an online option: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

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RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEXT FRIDAY: I'll be talking about rights of way and the fight for land access at the IHR, Senate House in London! There's still a few tickets left, or an online option: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

eventbrite.co.uk

RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

By God, the things I'm hearing and the stuff people are telling me about universities, hard to take it really. I'm out for now.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's the Welsh universities that are by far the deepest in the mire. As presently constituted they simply have no chance. I wouldn't even know where to start now. Very sad and very stupid. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/wales-n...

timeshighereducation.com

Wales needs ‘systemic reform’ as universities lose £100 million

Calls for regulator to act on subject review findings and better align education provision with nation’s needs, as six of its eight universities face deficits

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It is genuinely fascinating working in the midst of a true Public Policy Disaster and seeing it from the inside, but y'know... I'd rather not? www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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Student visa slump ‘raises serious questions’ on university funding - Research Professional News

Number of student visas granted falls by more than 40 per cent in three years

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's the Scottish (and even more so the Welsh) universities that one fears for most. As the system is configured now, they have no chance of continuing to provide good teaching and research. Many will not survive at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Scotland's universities face 'bleak' future as £200m funding gap revealed

A new report paints a 'bleak' picture of falling income from Scottish students and an over-reliance on international tuition fees.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Carney just dropped a long and obscure word just to poke this dumbo US admin in the eye. Is this reality? Hard to tell any more.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Say what you like about Mark Carney, and no doubt many Canadians will, at length. But the Donkey Kong of all Centrist Dads, or... Donald Trump? No contest.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

LOL, Carney's government in Canada with just the +20 to +30 approval. Let's see that rise a bit more now. 🇨🇦

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Now write the tandem piece about what is happening to public university funding & immigration policy in Canada, the UK, Germany, etc. These high-profile hirings are good headlines. The real story is no other country is coming to save higher ed & scientific research right now, including Canada.

ft.com

Canada poaches 48 US-based top academics

Trump administration’s assault on universities boosts Ottawa’s efforts to attract top research talent

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: I'll be speaking about rights of way, access to the land and visions of a future Britain at Senate House in London on Friday 25 Sept... Come along! Booking link below, and there's an online option there too. It'd be great to see you all there. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

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RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Imagine you're American, watching this and cringing yourself inside out like a pretzel. Everyone is just laughing at them. Then looking at their wallets.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/08/2026

everything is so stupid and embarrassing all the time

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The United States has completely lost its mind. Eurobomb and Euro-Army now, including Canada if they want to join.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Great University Disaster (cont.): Kent lost 11.6% of its staff and even then was £5.6m in the red. It has lost c.£10m in fee income and could only just break even when excluding property and redundancy pay. No wonder it had to 'merge' with Greenwich. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/kent-fi...

timeshighereducation.com

Kent finances improve despite near £10 million drop in fee income

Long-delayed financial statement shows institution cut staff expenditure and brought in more grants to offset recruitment woes

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The UK should be doing this! We could attract loads of top talent! Maddening.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Russia has a big problem. Its nuclear threats have declined in efficacy with use, and no-one in the West watches boring and scary mainstream news anyway. All the more reason to stage some sort of conventional provocation, which okay might be tolerable but might go wrong in a serious miscalculation.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Conservatives have managed just three overall majorities in the nearly 40 years since 1987. Two of those were tiny. Their divorce from the cities, civic and intellectual life as well as moderate, 'sensible' Middle Britain has crippled them. (1/2)

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lincoln Bishop University taken into the private sector by its lender, Global University Systems. As trailed here, there'll be much more of this coming up as creditors seek to secure their assets by taking them in-house. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gus-com...

timeshighereducation.com

GUS completes takeover of Lincoln Bishop University

Public institution to become autonomous company within wider private education group

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today's university with the upcoming cuts and redundancies is Glasgow. Looks like they've reached Stage 2 or Stage 3 of the 8-9 Stage regimen each university in the UK is being subjected to: voluntary first, compulsories later. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2650036...

heraldscotland.com

Leaked email states university jobs 'may be affected by restructuring programme'

The University of Glasgow has stressed that any redundancies will be exclusively voluntary after details of the severance scheme were seen by The…

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Universities will continue their unplanned collapse unless and until Mnisters grip the crisis and impose a planning system. But they don't have the imagination, admin powers or staffing to even make a start. They've locked themselves in a box. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

researchprofessionalnews.com

Arts and humanities research at Nottingham ‘under threat’ - Research Professional News

UCU branch's strike action aims to fight “likely” redundancies across several research areas

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is absolutely true. What’s more concerning is that Uni finance heads continue regardless. No one, and I repeat NO ONE, knows how much it costs to deliver a module or a programme at Exeter. We have shown them their errors, offered more realistic data, but agreeing with UCU would ruin accounting.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Universities, cont.: any high level data in most faculties will bear no resemblance to the school and field level data it summarises, and the university stats based on the faculty numbers will scramble and garble them again. Then the report to regulators will distort everything once more. (1/2)

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is one of the key points you need to be briefed on re: universities. All, and I mean all, of the basic data is trash and everyone knows it. Riding the good years between about 1998 and 2016, that didn't matter. Now it matters a lot, but there's no time to fix it.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The nightmarish world of Britain's universities is detailed in the thread below. Its chaotic and if I'm honest pathetic state shows why this is not about money. More cash would just be pumping resource into a leaky bucket. The whole structure needs to change.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Shall we do it again? Yeah, what the hell. 'Let's walk!' 'Do it again?' Gets you every time. youtube.com/watch?v=PQ4U...

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Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - "Islands in the Stream" | CMA Awards 1983

YouTube video by CMA

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Another awful day for British Higher Ed rounded off with more redundancy news, this time at that enormously successful and admirable institution, the University of the Highlands and Islands Inverness. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

UHI Inverness looking at job cuts to save £2m in staff costs

Bosses have launched a voluntary severance scheme following a meeting with staff.

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Whenever I’m down I watch this video of Dolly Parton joining Kenny Rogers during their joint 1985 tour. The crowd pop when she comes onstage mid-song is unlike anything I’ve ever heard.

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We Got Tonight - Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers live 1985

YouTube video by dollyabba

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is exactly what would happen in the UK under Farage. 'I never thought the face eating leopards would deport my wife!' 'I never thought the face eating leopards would cut off our food exports!' 'I never thought the face eating leopards would kill my job!' www.thedailybeast.com/key-voter-gr...

thedailybeast.com

Key Voter Group Rages at Trump for Sparking Historic Crisis

Farmers who overwhelmingly backed Trump are now warning they are in the worst financial crisis since the 1980s.

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Elena Adaal @elenaadaal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Its almost like there is a need for UK gov do something on UK universities.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Not reinstating the cap after 2020 was one of the most devastating decisions to hit HE and has absolutely destroyed smaller and mid-level universities.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If only we had a Government, a Dept for Education and an Office for Studemts, they'd probably do something.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Reform UK will certainly need stuff like this if they're to execute their policies. I would think inner urban rioting in reply to their tactics was fairly likely, and potentially wider unrest too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves

Civil liberties groups decry plan to use gloves linked to death of Kentucky man allegedly shocked 27 times in county jail

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Student. Number. Redistribution. How is any of this sound? How is any of this "efficient"? Universities are spending so many resources in trying to capture fees to survive, and then simply stack them up as an investment. How will this read in the accounts? Future guaranteed income?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'Brussels’ push for cheaper fees for European Union students at UK universities could prove to be one of the first major tests of Andy Burnham’s fledgling premiership, with institutions dead set against the idea, warning that it could cost them hundreds of millions of pounds.'

timeshighereducation.com

Burnham in EU fees balancing act as crunch talks loom

Any concessions made by new prime minister likely to be fiercely opposed by universities fearful of losing millions of pounds in income

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