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QM_UCU

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Jim Dickinson

An Early Day Motion has been tabled before UK Parliament to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Please write to your MP asking them to sign it, if they haven't already (names are listed here: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...). You can find your MP here: members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

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UCU University of Glasgow

If our management weren't such cowards we'd long since have had The List developed as an Impact Casestudy for REF, right? (Also, miss us with putting the blame for bad industrial relations on industrial action. Ask why staff has been pushed to make those financial sacrifices to start with.)

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QM_UCU

Also, nobody speaks like this. These are simply not helpful guidelines for human interaction.

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QM_UCU

If you need an image to sum up the UK higher education system in 2026:

UKHE. Mood.

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I just wanted to note I find it incredibly problematic that the political right offers a dystopian version of 'number controls' as a policy solution aimed to shrink the sector. We urgently need more planning in UK HE, and the folks at Policy Exchange are, in my view, poisoning this well.

Solidarity with @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social Out today and indefinitely ✊

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History)

Lisa Rullsenberg

Tuxedo Catfish

Dr Dave Hitchcock

'It goes on to advocate for a “smaller system with higher academic standards”. Specifically, Policy Exchange recommends that student number controls are reintroduced and that places should be reduced by six per cent year-on-year for five years, leading to a 30 per cent total reduction.' 3/3