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An Article describing the way one education consultancy firm, Nous, is directly connected to the dismantling of multiple universities from Australia to Canada (and now UK). The Uniforum software they use for benchmarking was used @exeter.ac.uk Some gems quoted below: renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou... 1/4

Brilliant from my colleague John in Politics at Exeter. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri... #DefendExeterUni If you want to see a snapshot of the errors in @exeter.ac.uk UEB's analysis of teaching capacity see the next one 1/2

Inside Britain's university crisisAs 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 Exeterdemocracyforsale.substack.com

Our registrar regularly works with them too, no conflict of interest of course. #DefendExeterUni www.instagram.com/p/DbY6dnVNzXO/

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What is the word one uses to describe a person who habitually says the opposite of what is true...? Our VC: Exeter has one of the largest humanities and social science depts and will continue to do so. Here is a helpful chart for where it is & what will happen. #DefendExeterUni @exeter.ac.uk

But of course it did. Because unless you literally open up the entire set of files/data, etc. on which you train any AI and open up how and what patterns are being recorded from which it is "learning" you will have precisely this! No black boxes--make it transparent and very carefully monitored.

Congratulations to our new @britishacademy.bsky.social fellows. But also sobering as they point out when @exeter.ac.uk is simultaneously putting their jobs &those of a hundred others in humanities, arts and social sciences, The Academy's remit, under threat! #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social

New Issue of Pasts Imperfect is out. Special issue on Homer and the Odyssey, Mayan ruins and much more. Also ends with a plea (thank you @sarahebond.bsky.social) for signing the petition to #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social

@exeter.ac.uk management claims consultancy has begun for a compulsory redundancy process. @exeterucu.bsky.social has registered with the arbitration committee that the law requires proper data to be shared before such a process can begin. This is the data needed which we haven't been given.

Senior management @exeter.ac.uk "We are in serious financial trouble so we need to make these drastic cuts NOW, otherwise we face major deficits". The VC yesterday "We have a 1% surplus for this year, which is not enough so we need to make drastic cuts NOW". #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social

Here's a good write up of how private equity is destroying UK Higher ed now too after already doing a number in US and elsewhere. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Private finance is strangling British educationMore money is being spent on education—but this isn’t always to the benefit of students, or the countrywww.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Yes to this, but make no mistake that the attacks on humanities & damage to HE is the confluence of ideologies, private equity, consultants, genocide-profiteers, senior management, media moguls and a desire to crush unions (often more well-represented amongst HASS academics).

I am not opposed to people leaving because that is what they want to do for their own well-being and have means to do so, BUT the problem with higher ed IS senior management & the millions they are scraping up top & investing in their stock portfolios with unnecessary expenses. #DefendExeterUni

Tremendous support from across various segments of our society--businesses, public figures, MPs, & even a former archbishop of Canterbury--against the UNNECESSARY cutting of humanities, arts & social sciences @exeter.ac.uk #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities postsRowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social scienceswww.theguardian.com

Two Important articles dissecting the situation here and beyond for higher ed, including the problem with consultants @exeter.ac.uk @exeterucu.bsky.social #DefendExeterUni www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... 1/2

The bonfire of the humanities150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental scienceswww.technosphere.earth