Fun thought: has any senior university leader actually acknowledged this? Either externally or in ‘we recognise how this is a difficult time’ staff comms? Because otherwise it’s all ‘the weak must suffer what they must’ rhetoric that just serves to divide.
Pavel Iosad
Actually, SHAPE subjects cross-subsidise STEM subjects in most comprehensive UK universities annually through differential central charge or 'contribution' models. It's another reason we're all in the current HE crisis together, whether our own particular discipline is 'at risk' at present or not.
Margot Finn
‘I’m just so passionate about the arts and sciences being brought together… And I thought it was quite funny that the arts would sponsor the sciences — because it’s normally the other way around, right?’
Lovely @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social piece on a science inspired artist
www.ft.com/content/54c7...
The Turner Prize winner — whose works delight in probability and orbital mechanics — is donating to the university’s prestigious Savilian chair
