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Remarkable piece of journalism, using the reputation of the journalist and newspaper (which some will no doubt discredit) to try and circumvent the heat surrounding this case www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professorJason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racismwww.theguardian.com

Weird headline here, given Kramer a) doesn't appear to name Labour b) identifies a series of policies - frozen tuition fees, TEF, REF, OfS freedom of speech - that arose from Tory-led administrations. Starmer's first HE policy was to raise tuition fees www.ft.com/content/e14d...

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

The front-facing camera was a mistake

Aside from @mansfieldvonrank.bsky.social being unjustly airbrushed out here, a remarkable detail: that 6 Music was for Cameronism what Fox & Friends is for Trumpism

very interesting from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com - cross-over in graph on left coincides precisely with Global Financial Crisis www.ft.com/content/6a35...

I am now criticising Joyce Carol Oates www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s OdysseyThe novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped boost her book saleswww.theguardian.com

the Spectator can't believe that academic recruitment panels don't pass an applicant's PhD thesis through a plagiarism checker, prior to appointing

Am assuming that at least 50% of the courses ‘in AI’ that universities are currently blanket advertising will be cobbled together and/or out of date, and taught by people whose own skills - coding - have already been rendered defunct by AI

Having made the unpopular (amongst our kids) decision to take our summer holiday in Donegal, am now wondering whether I can spin some nonsense to a Travel supplement editor that this is a bleeding edge trend of 'Climate Tourism'

[cut to university admissions wondering why the average age of a clearing applicant is now 55]

log in to facebook to find wall-to-wall ads for university clearing places, including many from ThePresitigiousRussellGroupOfUniversitiesTM. August is going to be a fight to the death.

shot/chaser

UK higher education when presented with its bill of health

Welcome to the 5 stages of grief, only where you skip straight from 'denial' to 'acceptance'

Someone in the Green Party needs to learn about the ‘parental controls’ function on an iPhone, job done

This is excellent on the current politicisation of academia by the Right, ending by taking up Wendy Brown’s heavily caveated Weberianism www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

In the Grip of Politics | Greg AfinogenovAll of us, from academics to fishermen, have now internalized a practice of reading the social world as a field of political or latently political signs. TV watching habits, food choices, clothing, in...www.nplusonemag.com

Hi, historian here. None of it happened.

an issue that, only 2 or 3 years ago, was 'Environment' is now 'News'