Lawyer, lecturer, still plotting my escape from the grind
Kush
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FIFA not wanting to offend slave-owners is very much on brand.
Today's (rainy) picket #ucu
TONIGHT: public meeting on the future of higher education in Sheffield.
Job cuts and restructures are threatening both universities and the city that depends on them.
Hear from Abtisam Mohamed MP and TUC regional secretary Dave Pike, and have your say. Register below!
Firstly, it's a travesty what has been happening to HE in the UK.
Secondly, watching from a far with still a foot there, the decline of the university sector in the UK is a few steps ahead of what may be down the road for HE in similar systems, particularly, Australia and Canada.
Pikachu learns it is complicit in war crimes
The greatest diversity success of the British establishment has been a whole cohort of privately educated Black and Asian politicians and journalists actually being far right. Well done everyone!
The media are contriving emphases on Sikhism for one story, and trivialising racially aggravated arson in another. The stage of the respective investigation/proceedings - for the avoidance of doubt - is NO excuse. This is practiced narrative manipulation.
Dr. Charles Toombs, immediate past-President of the California Faculty Association, remarking at the AAUP Higher Ed Summit on how easily the commitments made in 2020 to racial justice & equity have been so easily tossed aside for political expediency.
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#AAUP2026
In this post I argue that law schools in the current climate need to urgently figure out what they are (can be) for. Are they cash cows producing more lawyers doing more of the same, or can they be spaces where we create the frameworks for building a better world?
folukeafrica.com/what-are-law...
This is such an important point: we rightly bemoan the ‘corporatization’ of higher ed but the irony is that many of the corporate managerial practices being imposed on us were discredited and abandoned by for-profit corporations long ago.
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Nils C. Kumkar
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Local legal knowledges and global critical junctures
FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery.
Depraved.
amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Today I've written for Arguably on one big mystery in our public life: why does no-one care about the existential crisis of our universities? Read all about it... 👇
www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
Leader of Opposition Kemi Badenoch proposes the repeal of the public sector equality duty, which requires public bodies to eliminate unlawful discrimination, advance equal opportunity & to foster good relations. She argues it promotes a 'dangerous & divisive' agenda. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones
www.resetera.com/threads/15...
