Historian. Writer.
Harvard paid McKinsey a quarter of a mill to tell them to sack loads of people in Arts and Hums! Nice work if you can get it! 🤡 www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.www.thecrimson.comIt cannot be said often enough that England and Wales in particular no longer possess many universities as governed from the c1960s to the c2000s. Many are now debt vehicles squeezed for remaining value by creditors and their proxy representatives. You have to see these things clearly.
Glen O'HaraA deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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.comMore than half the trains on the board are delayed or cancelled. The other three are flashing with platform changes. 🇬🇧 👍
Glen O'HaraHey everyone! I'm on a train again! And after last week's debacles it's... late! My 0% punctuality run is still going!
This was all tried in the 1960s (e.g. in Leicestershire) as a parallel experiment to comprehensives. No-one liked it, it didn't really work.
Sam FreedmanNew post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Can someone please just search up 'Lyndon Johnson Vietnam' in front of him? 🙄
ShipwreckUS Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared a large-scale operation in the form of a decisive two-week bombing campaign should Trump choose escalation to break the deadlock in the Middle East, two sources confirmed.-NYP
We've been here so, so many times with this 'technical skills' argument, and the divide between lovely practical trades and silly old 'education'. For hundreds of years! And every time it proved to be... a load of old rope. Let's see this time shall we. theskillsagenda.substack.com/p/ministers-...
Ministers should first learn the history of British technical educationAndy Burnham is not the only newly minted PM to promise an overhaul of English technical education which all his predecessors have tried but failed over decades.theskillsagenda.substack.comAt the University of Dundee, there is 'no growth strategy apart from cuts'. Britain really is the thickest country in the world. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
Dundee University staff raise fears over proposed job cuts to business schoolSources within the university claim the school generated 39% of all fee-paying students last year.www.thecourier.co.ukThe University of Surrey, which was built up to provide for advanced science and technology in the 1950s and 1960s, has been in difficulties since 2019 and is suppressing... science and maths. Britain really is the thickest country in the world. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/course-...
Course closures at University of Surrey raise concernsScience and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’www.timeshighereducation.comAs we watch the really acute phase of Britain's university crisis begin, we should do much better at advising, training, counselling and supporting PhD students and postdocs to shift out of the sector and move into more sustainable and vibrant roles. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Job insecurity is chipping away at me and my cohort. Is it us, or the state of the economy?The career market is difficult to navigate — and academic achievements feel like they’re no longer enough, says Daniella Watson.www.nature.comTaxpayers keep on piling loads of money into Higher Education. Then the government does this with it.
Cartoon Men Burning MoneyALT: Cartoon Men Burning Moneystatic.klipy.comThe terrible, stupid waste of UK universities policy continues. Your cash down the drain. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-bri...
New British Academy fellows at risk in Exeter jobs cullBeing at the ‘top of your game’ no guarantee of job security, warns decorated historian now facing the chopwww.timeshighereducation.comThe terrible, stupid waste of UK universities policy continues. Your cash down the drain. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
New Ulster University buildings will ‘sit gathering dust’ if job cuts go ahead, council toldOver 400 positions are set to go from April 2027 at Ulster University as it tackles £25m deficitwww.irishnews.comHey, I've managed to get onto yet another train! Guess what? It's late.
Glen O'HaraThere's now crushing to get into the one train that has appeared in the extreme heat. The gate staff have had to open all the barriers but have still had to shout at everyone in the absolute melee of a crowd. It's horrible.