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David Andress
ProfDaveAndress
"Students pay fees to universities" is an excellent example of the value of a political Big Lie.Universities were compelled by government to set a "fee" level, because it was the
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Julia Belgutay
JBelgutay
This, to me, is the real problem with T levels. What a quote from @UniofOxford in @KateParkerTes piece: 'As T levels are technical and vocational qualifications, it is unlikely that
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Zak Slayback
zslayback
The fact that student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy is a blatant handout to universities and creditors.The reality is: if people could discharge student debt in bankruptcy, a lot
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Matt Crilly
MCrilly
Key message from Scottish Gov: “Students should not return to their term-time accommodation until they are advised to do so by their institution, because face-to-face teaching is resuming.” https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-
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Alistair Jarvis
AlistairJarvis
The confusion of recent days have added further uncertainty and distress to students who have already faced many difficulties as a result of the Covid-19. Student must be the priority,
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Pushkar
PushHigherEd
Why do I get the sense that those making the argument that "knowledge creation, not just knowledge dissemination, is one of the fundamental roles of universities" are clueless about actually-existing
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Miroslav Imbrisevic
Miroandrej
1/2 Great material from UK universities: "Pangender: refers to a gender identity whereby a person identifies with a multitude, and perhaps infinite (going beyond the current knowledge of genders) number
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Esther Mondragón
twitemp1
This is what happens when you leave universities, education and research alike, in the hands of businessmen (not accidental) and allow that centres that ought to be for knowledge and
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Danielle Ivory
danielle_ivory
The @nytimes has identified more than 6,300 cases of the coronavirus tied to colleges across the US. And fall classes haven’t even started yet at most places. Find your school
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Brendan Cantwell
cant_b
1/ Neither of Trump's packages nor Biden's proposal has money for academic research or graduate education. I take the absence of federal money for research / graduate education as an
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Paul Ashwin
paulashwin
Received an invitation to respond to the @timeshighered academic reputation survey. There is no way anyone can meaningfully identify the best teaching and research universities in their subject area. But
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Heidi Li Feldman
HeidiLiFeldman
Not only have universities wasted faculty time and energy in refusing to face the necessity of all remote instruction this fall, they have squandered faculty confidence in the judgment and
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Jonathan Hopkin
jrhopkin
I think the latest argument about universities rests on some strange notion that somehow what goes on there should be representative of the range of existing views in the country
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David Peetz
PeetzDavid
As the fee policy applies at the course, and not the program, level, it will very strongly discourage engineering, IT or other science students form taking courses in business, sociology
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Amelia Horgan
joan0fsnark
Not really sure how universities claiming they want to decolonise the curriculum are going to do anything of the sort when they’re effectively firing a significant proportion of their teaching
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R.B. Lemberg
RB_Lemberg
Late night thoughts:Universities existed before capitalism. Universities exist/ed in monarchies, under communism, in capitalist societies, in socialist societies, in every type of society.Universities are, in their idealized form, communiti
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