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Elsa Devienne
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Knowledge & understanding grow in university settings when experts disagree with each other, testing each others' claims, adducing different evidence & positing alternative scenarios. That's how change happens.
In this thread, I suggest that we take a different approach to that featured here. 1/x
Oh yes, this happened last week!
Life is actually pretty simple
Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.
I emerge, out of nowhere, to tell all my (currently 0) followers that I HAVE PUBLISHED A BOOK! It's beautiful, it's amazing, and I love it! It's called Abnormal Peripheries and it's about performance in the former Czechoslovakia that emerged under political pressures. GO READ IT and share this post
And many institutions have failed to increase teaching and physical capacity along with this. So you have staff being responsible for vastly increased numbers of students, all crammed into lecture theatres, and neither group getting what they deserve.
