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Of the confirmed VR and compulsory departures so far, I can say that we won’t have specialists in these areas any more: Medieval literature Drama Shakespeare and the Renaissance Victorian literature and culture Modernism Novel writing. Computational linguistics. What could possibly go wrong?

Definitely the case here. In two weeks we find which 9 of 12 in my group will be gone. The other 3 will then have a month to prepare and find hourly-paid replacements for all the classes across two degrees. And supervise 25 PhDs. Plus admin and pastoral care and research. Management doesn’t care.

She had significant political influence during the rule of her husband and then of her son, Lorenzo. She worked to support the needs of the poor, and was also a patron of the arts, as well as being a writer of poems and plays herself.

Connected by birth to two of the most powerful families in 15th-century Italy, she later married Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, connecting herself to another of the most powerful families in Italy and extending her own power and influence.

Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427- 1482) was an Italian writer and influential political adviser. #CelebratingWomen

Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)

Not only that but *the entire Humanities offering at Hertfordshire has gone and is being taught out*

I see some people are reading this post as being about Exeter but it’s referring to the University of Hertfordshire. And that’s Owen’s point. Less coverage about the axe falling there but it’s equally sad.

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Ignore the Russell Group-fixated headline. The universities with the largest declines are: Lincoln Bishop (down 51.4%), University for the Creative Arts (down 50.5%), Norwich University of the Arts (-40.4%), Falmouth University (-35.1%) and Goldsmiths, University of London (-30.0%). 1/2

Russell Group universities take £10m teaching grant hit - Research Professional NewsFunding allocations confirm impact of £51m cut to Strategic Priorities Grantwww.researchprofessionalnews.com

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head saysLSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurancewww.ft.com

I never thought that I would have to write this piece about my university. But after weeks of demonstrating privately to senior managers that their case is based on a false prospectus, that their data are inaccurate and their claims misleading, there was little choice. substack.com/@lucasamin/n...

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 Exetersubstack.com

‘The financial data and/or strategic rationale are the starting/reference point from which we are proposing these changes.’ Folks, this is a genuine sentence, on which 153 academic jobs hang. #DefendExeterUni

🚨 KEY DATES FOR THE POSTAL BALLOT 🚨 Jot them down, add them to your Google calendars, write them in flames a mile high (for any Senior Management reading this, that's a joke 😇)

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4 nations, but ultimately 1 major UK crisis.

The 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.com

Submission to #ArchiveHour are always welcome - remember, it's not actually an hour, it's a state of mind 🗃️

That's just the tip of the rapidly melting Arts iceberg, and does not address the loss of Strategic Priority Grant for Archaeology programmes, Geography, Nursing... 2/2

Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2

Arts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cutsUniversity for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zerowww.timeshighereducation.com