UUKspin

A gallery of spin from Universities UK, also on Twitter @UUKspin. To contact us, please email [email protected]

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De servitute academica, seu de debitorum viribus – UUKspin – Medium

An incomplete and ongoing list of UK universities with major borrowings (£50m+) in recent years

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Liverpool University: ‘Chinese students are usually unfamiliar with the word “cheating” in English’

This week University of Liverpool seems determined to alienate as many students as possible: from ‘academic sanctions’ for late rent to…

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University of Reading Voluntary Redundancy Scheme opens on Monday 14 January 2019 (Source: University of Reading all-staff email, Friday 11 January 2019).

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Gaming the TEF? Suspending entry for Music and Sound Technology at University of Portsmouth

Is this the latest technique of gaming the NSS and the TEF?

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The legacy of Bangor University vice-chancellor John G. Hughes (2010–18)

Bangor University is running a redundancy programme, and is proposing to shut its Chemistry department. Its VC, John G. Hughes, will…

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Festive message from the Interim Vice-Chancellor of University of London

In an all-staff email dated 13 December 2018, Professor Peter Kopelman attacks the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and…

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Festive redundancies in UK Higher Education – UUKspin – Medium

A list of UK universities that are making staff redundant, or have announced redundancy plans, in the run up to Christmas 2018

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Dozens of support jobs set to go: union raises concerns over ‘far-reaching restructures’ at Sheffield Hallam University (Sheffield Telegraph, Thursday 13 December 2018).

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University of Birmingham Provost and Vice-Principal Professor Tim Jones’ response to the life imprisonment of Durham University PhD student Matthew Hedges by the UAE government (23 November 2018).

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Alistair Jarvis of Universities UK (UUK) resurfaced and was a judge on the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2018 (THELMA) (Twitter, 21 June 2018 and THELMA website)

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Guardian, 2 June 2018: Egypt's Sisi is sworn in for a second term, amid crackdown on dissent

Livuninews and UUKIntl Twitter, 26 June 2018: Janet Beer and UUK sign memorandum of understanding with Egyptian government.

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University of York Vice-Chancellor Professor Koen Lamberts celebrating Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) (Uniofyork Instagram, 6 June 2018)

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University of Sussex discriminated against student on the basis of mental health by placing her on university accommodation “Do Not House” blacklist (Change.org petition, 21 July 2017). Sussex finally removed student from blacklist after Caroline Lucas MP contacted Vice-Chancellor Adam Tickell (2 August 2017).

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Adam Tickell: “Where there are crises, regulations can be sometimes be legitimately over-ridden to help students” (HEPI Twitter, 14 June 2018). Tweet endorsed by Tickell.

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Higher Education Policy Institute HEPI (Twitter, 14 June 2018) First question: Q: “Who is right on free speech?” A: “The Minister.”

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Andrew Adonis (Twitter, 26 September 2017) calling University of Sussex “a ripoff university”. VC Adam Tickell “shamelessly milking his students”.

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Sam Gyimah: The threat to freedom of speech in universities was not “some right-wing conspiracy theory that someone cooked up” (University of Buckingham HEFestival18, 14 June 2018 and The Independent). Except it was a “right-wing conspiracy theory that someone cooked up” (”Minister for students backtracks on freedom of speech accusation”, 15 June 2018)