'Despite calls on ministers to redress declines in the amount the state pays to universities, the Department for Education (DfE) is planning to announce the Strategic Priorities Grant for 2026-27 will be cut back to about £1.25 billion – down from £1.35 billion'.
How to show you hate HE. 1/3
I received an email this morning from a fellow working with Alice Beck Kehoe about digital archaeology but he found me through this old post. Click through if you want old school Binford Americanist archaeology drama, wherein Alice replies herself! 🏺
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Russia is openly waging a form of hybrid warfare against us and this is part of it.
www.timeshighereducation.com
Coming reduction in funding for high-cost subjects and access programmes ‘extraordinarily frustrating’, says Universities UK leader
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
Doctor yesterday telling me about potential impact of AI on their work and it’s so clear there’s a difference between machine learning and LLMs in actual use-cases.
Sexism/racism in the review is one very serious (and plainly disqualifying) problem. But a supplemental thought: the idea of emotional detachment as the default in academia has always been bullsh*t. Anyone who has sat in a seminar room while two 70 year old white guys yell at each other knows it.
This was a really good article, I thought (somewhat nervously as I have to take a paper to a big decision board today which has followed exactly the 'invisible' path described!)
56% of MPs regret their time in parliament or say it wasn’t good value for money. “well. you know there is being an MP, and then there is being an MP in the more selective setting of the European Rsearch Group, which is much better,” spokesperson for self publicising org the ERG commented
