I'm going to start another uber-thread, this one on #prepping for a no-deal crash-out #brexit. The main theme is going to be that the best #BrexitSurvivalKit is a prepared community working together, not a shopping list. 1/x
This thread is inspired by a number of things. I was about to go and buy some dried food, before deciding that there would be little point. Also, for work reasons I know a bit about UK civil defence and food policy in WW2 and the lessons we can learn from this.
Jul 11, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hey, UK HE hive mind, where do I go for the most up-to-date report on the way that students who have full-time caring responsibilities (particularly those who have been carers in childhood) face systemic barriers when participating in HE? @ucu@oubucu#wideningparticipation
There's this: nus.org.uk/en/news/nus-pu…
Part one of a series of posts explaining why I think there's about to be another crisis in UK HE. 1/x
The most important alarm bell: HoC Education SC, Feb 21st 2018, @PeterHorrocks answers a question about his salary, justifying it thus: "We are going to have to carry out the largest restructuring redundancy programme ever in UK university history" 2/x parliament.uk/business/commi…