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A multifaceted reading of a complex situation. An excellent article by @miraalhussein.bsky.social

Radical empathy ✊💚

It is never ok to kill any children anywhere ever.

Yet thou didst kill my children.

People living in the Middle East are not some special species that becomes more immune to tragedy the more they experience it. They are humans who are suffering at levels that are almost inconceivable To believe otherwise is to justify your cold indifference

What the British government is letting happen to universities is unconscionable

UCU - Labour's attempt to "outflank Reform" on international students "political suicide", says UCU www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...

Plans to cut mental health courses at the University of East Anglia have been criticised as “short-sighted” and a “dereliction of civic responsibility”. More on the proposed Clinical Psychology course closures at UEA via @timeshighered.bsky.social - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/closure...

The outward ripples of the unchecked job cuts across Higher Ed in the UK this year that the govt has allowed to happen.

BREAKING: University of East Anglia plans to axe THREE vital mental health training programmes, putting 19 jobs at risk. These programmes train frontline NHS mental health workers who work directly with vulnerable patients.

UEA: the clearest case of ‘you can’t cut yourself to success’. Sort this out, government. It is on you, as you are the only ones who can put an end to the spirals of absurd recruitment projections, tinkering with entry requirements, and taking out megalomaniac loans-with-harmful-covenants. #UKHE

Add UEA to the list for the third time. The latest cuts are in clinical psychology affecting ~18 staff who train mental health professionals. Shocking & short-sighted the cuts will be devastating for staff, students and for the region too. @uea-ucu.bsky.social is fighting to save these jobs. ✊

The furore over certain Glastonbury performers' statements and banning Palestine Action are distracting tactics. We shouldn't allow our selves to get pulled away from the actual story which is the extreme violence being perpetrated daily on Palestinians, especially in #Gaza.

This. The cycle of redundancies is NOT the solution to the H.E. crisis. Well done @ducuuo.bsky.social!

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How are we allowing scores of people to be killed daily when they come seeking the only access they have to food and aid? We are all complicit in this violence. #Gaza #FreePalestine

Wait, what? Sholay’s original ending was cut due to censors? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Repeat after me: protest is free speech

An example of a culture where it is one rule for those at the top and another for everyone else. University of Dundee culture change will happen only when people who have aligned themselves with the values of the previous Principal and interim Principal, resign www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

The Senior Management Teams of our universities should never have been put in the position where they either had to or were empowered to destroy a key sector of state infrastructure piecemeal. Basic governance failure.

Eight compulsory redundancies. Just how much do you hate your staff that you go through the trouble of destroying the livelihoods of these colleagues, for just *eight* salaries. What's that, in relation to the entire operating budget of the university? www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/s...

This is one situation where university executives taking a pay cut could likely find all of that cost

UEA has this week issued compulsory redundancy notices to a very small number of staff despite making most of their savings through voluntary means and a big restructure. This is the 2nd round of cuts in 2 years. We expect more to come. @uea-ucu.bsky.social will keep resisting these cuts.

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And in the midst of the UK-EU news, this bit of devastating news for UK universities was lobbed in by the education secretary today. More cuts to h.e. funding... Ffs www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ofs-str...

You can blame ‘the tough wider context of HE problems’, but at the heart of it all are rotten managers and executives making unthinkably negligent decisions with destructive consequences for staff, students, and knowledge.

Important piece by @conorbollins.bsky.social not only explaining the situation, discussing remediation but posing the important question about "what universities are and what they should be"... @uea-ucu.bsky.social has been challenging mgmt on all these issues as we face redundancies.

Last day on the picket with @uea-ucu.bsky.social , fighting to get management to take compulsory redundancies off the table. Their road is a cruel, unnecessary, and frankly obstinate one. They say they don’t believe morale is low. They say neither us nor the students will notice.

📣It is our firm stance that protecting students and staff at UEA requires us to fight compulsory redundancies with every tool we have. 🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us. 🚩Together we can #SaveUEA

Redundancies remain on the table at UEA. "It’s time for UEA management to do the right thing, drop the threats, engage meaningfully, and commit to real accountability." @drjogrady.bsky.social Solidarity with all striking staff. ✊ #SaveUEA #UCU

www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/what-we-do/c... Grim reading - government inaction on the sector's failed funding model is drastically reducing student choice and impoverishing our research capacity. We can't cut ourselves into excellence. Real investment is needed now

@uea-ucu.bsky.social is on strike against compulsory redundancies at UEA. It was Day 3 on the picketline today, and we will be out again tomorrow. ✊ #SaveUEA

On International Worker's Day @uea-ucu.bluesky.social began 9 days of strike action to save jobs & avoid compulsory redundancy. We have already given the university considerable savings via "voluntary" measures. Now mgmt needs to do the right thing & call this off. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1400...

☀️UEA UCU members will be on strike from tomorrow, Thurs 1st May. Pickets will run from 8:00am to 11:00am. ☀️Gazebo HQ will be opposite the main bus stop on campus. ☀️Please dress for the hot weather and bring hats, sunscreen, and reusable water bottles/cups. #SaveUEA

The UEA is “disappointed” with our strike action. We’re disappointed that compulsory redundancies are still on the table & our colleagues are sick with anxiety

📣UEA UCU members have voted for 9 days of strike action to commence this week from Thurs 1st May. 📣This is in response to management's plans to continue progressing compulsory redundancies. 📣There is still time for the employer to change course. #SaveUEA

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Sara Ahmed @saranahmed.bsky.social on the UK Supreme Court's recent For Women Scotland judgment: feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha... 🤲

The way we treat international students in the UK is disgraceful. Government policy tells them they are unwanted & untrustworthy whilst also forcing universities to depend upon attracting & grossly overcharging them.

Trans women will always be women and trans men will always be men, and non-binary folks exist.

Trans women are women

I have been at risk of redundancy in the current round of cuts so all of this resonates so deeply and personally. The process totally destroys your sense of who you are, what you have done, what you could do. And with the sector collapsing it's also a deeper grief, of loss and what the future is

Our Norwich North MP, Alice Macdonald, made a strong case for H.E. at the parliamentary debate today. She laid out a number of concerns, including the need for greater transparency, accountability and staff voice which we in @uea-ucu.bsky.social are fighting for ✊

🎙️"We see this as a strike for students and on behalf of students as well." - Nick Grant, UEA UCU co-chair, speaking to BBC Radio Norfolk. 🚩University management cannot cut staff, jettisoning expertise and services in the process, without damaging the student experience. #SaveUEA #UKHE

🎙️"Compulsory redundancies [...] would represent a new low in the history of the institution." 🎧 Nick Grant, co-chair of UEA UCU, explains on BBC Radio Norfolk why staff at the university are taking strike action. 🚩Resisting further cuts is in the interests of both staff and students. #SaveUEA