So... teaching staff excluded from the *Teachers'* Pension Scheme and relegated to a different tier of employment? Solidarity with all our colleagues at Sheffield Hallam!
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So... teaching staff excluded from the *Teachers'* Pension Scheme and relegated to a different tier of employment? Solidarity with all our colleagues at Sheffield Hallam!
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
*History professor profits from sale of historical artefacts*
Another headline fixed
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
This blog does a great job of articulating the slightly 'lost' feeling I've had in educational development in the last few years, but offers some good tips too to develop longer-term thinking:
thesedablog.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/n...
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
"These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people, and it’s destroying the space in which Iranians were struggling for social justice and civil liberties” - Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, once imprisoned on death row in Iran. www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/ira...
Well, this happens when you close down your language departments.
Great to see this book chapter out from our Healthy Ageing in a Changing Climate project @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @sei.org with Ryan Woolrych & Gary Haq, in collab with @merrynthomas.bsky.social & team about the methods used in our two @ukri.org projects.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
One of the most popular AI tools that huge numbers of students use is Grammarly. Did you see its recent new AI features? It gives those of us working in Higher Education A LOT to think about when it comes to assessments.
Prepare yourself if this is new! #highered
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Z5...
PIZZA EXPRESS BOOK A CELEBRATION
How to make pancakes the british way:
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.
Workplace day of action for Palestine
TODAY is Workplace and Student Day of Action for Palestine.
We stand with workers and students across the country taking action to challenge complicity in Israel’s genocide and demand justice for the Palestinian people.
Pledge to join: palestinecampaign.org/events/pledg...
'The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act does not offer any remedies for people who just happen to fancy speaking on campus but can’t get invited'
A hilarious and loving bit of reading to start the day: www.tom-cox.com/31-notes-i-h...
"They want our stories, not our authority." wonkhe.com/blogs/the-gr...
8 things to look for when we get the judgement on University of Sussex wonkhe.com/blogs/eight-...
Related - 'is higher education really ready to rebuild, and work, around the admission that knowing things might matter less than knowing what to do when you don’t?' wonkhe.com/blogs/now-th...
Raises real questions though about resourcing - approaches like this require investment in staffing and training in order to fully realise the relational pedagogy needed here
Authenticity and accountability are key for assessment in the age of GenAi wonkhe.com/blogs/what-d...
How companies like Palantir use Gaza as a laboratory for AI algorithms www.youtube.com/shorts/BGp0q...
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Another day, another report setting out the grim experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. As usual there are no real surprises in this for university disability practitioners like me, but the fact these issues persist should make unis hang their heads in shame www.gov.uk/government/p...
State of the Sector report is out now from @theeauc.bsky.social - highlights that delivery lags behind ambition, and institutions need ring-fenced funding, accountable leadership, and aligned policy to enable change. www.eauc.org.uk/resources/re...
Yet JKR and friends are claiming trans people are the risks...
While sucking up to Jeffrey Epstein *AFTER* Epstein was convicted of one round of child abuse offences...
This needs sharing like all heck, to show transphobia was not and has NEVER been about protecting (cis) women (or children).
