"Parts of the world are essentially ambiguous in the way that calls for judgment. These parts of the world are least amenable to science... and they are largely where our humanity lies."
criticalchunks.substack.com/p/the-kids-a...
“The system has been kept afloat only by the higher fees paid by international students. #Brexit and successive governments’ hostile immigration policies did for that—and anyway the reputation of British #HigherEducation… is now in a well-deserved decline” #Academia newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Up to 111 academic jobs to be cut, despite the current forecast of a £4 million surplus for this financial year.
The same restructuring process will create new Executive Dean roles on 6-figure salaries. Just yesterday SMT announced the hiring of a new Vice Principal.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Looking forward to presenting in this workshop at the University of Reading next month!
To register, contact the organiser: Rufaida Al Hashmi ([email protected])
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Eilidh Beaton
Dr Keith Wilson is on Eurosky✦
The Ethics of Immigrant Selection workshop
Date: 22nd June, 2026 from 10:00 to 18:00
Location: London Road L22 G06
University of Reading, Reading
Details: While the normative literature on ...
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The institution said it was facing a "stark" financial challenge after confirming 111 jobs could be lost to make savings.
🗓️ All are welcome to attend our upcoming workshop, Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective, 11.30am-5.30pm in the Sir Duncan Rice Library.
If you plan to join for any part of the event, please inform [email protected] for catering purposes.
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Eilidh Beaton
Eilidh Beaton
Or: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us
Wrote a thing on why buying into the “generative AI is inevitable so we need to stuff it into all crevices of higher ed” narrative is not only bad pedagogy, but bad Political Science.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Large language models (LLMs) have disrupted higher education, prompting a wave of scholarship on generative AI in the Political Science classroom. This emerging literature largely converges in argu...
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
Migration numbers to the UK are falling, yet at the same time attitudes towards immigration are hardening. That’s because immigration concerns are a symbol for other anxieties, argues @nandosigona.bsky.social.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Johanna Rodehau-Noack
Migration numbers are falling, but attitudes towards immigration are hardening. That's because immigration concerns are a symbol for other anxieties.
Very good, if extremely depressing, piece by Stefan Collini to explain what has been and is being done to this country’s universities. If interested to find out, I recommend reading it.
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
