Dr Corinne Painter
@corinnepainter.bsky.social
Associate Prof Intercultural Studies @ Uni of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social
FHEA. FRHistS
Research: Women's Life Writing, Revolution, Antifascism, German Jewish women. Tweets my own. She/Her
FHEA. FRHistS
Research: Women's Life Writing, Revolution, Antifascism, German Jewish women. Tweets my own. She/Her
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German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
A very frustrating situation but also a trip down memory lane. It's @leedsucu.bsky.social!
'David Maguire and Alex Bols, vice-chancellor and chief of staff respectively at the University of East Anglia, updated their prediction made last autumn that 10,000 jobs could be lost in 2024-25, claiming this same amount could in fact be lost every year going forward.' 1/3
UK universities ‘could cut 10,000 jobs every year’
Academics claim changes made to higher education system a decade ago have divided sector into ‘winners and losers’, with government-imposed limits on income exacerbating financial challenges
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A very frustrating situation but also a trip down memory lane. It's @leedsucu.bsky.social!
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I'm very excited for the launch of the new School of Languages, Cultures and Societies Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics, next Thursday 4 December 2025. At a darkening time for queer lives, launching this centre feels like kindling a small light. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Launch event for new Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics
Location: Chemistry SR (1.53g)
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I'm very excited for the launch of the new School of Languages, Cultures and Societies Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics, next Thursday 4 December 2025. At a darkening time for queer lives, launching this centre feels like kindling a small light. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
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RHS Fellows based in universities come not just from History depts but from across HE bit.ly/48iH0oG
In the past 12 months, we've welcomed historians based in (among others) Accounting, Education, English, Film Studies, Law, Media Studies, Modern Languages, Political Theory & Theology #Skystorians
In the past 12 months, we've welcomed historians based in (among others) Accounting, Education, English, Film Studies, Law, Media Studies, Modern Languages, Political Theory & Theology #Skystorians
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
RHS Fellows based in universities come not just from History depts but from across HE bit.ly/48iH0oG
In the past 12 months, we've welcomed historians based in (among others) Accounting, Education, English, Film Studies, Law, Media Studies, Modern Languages, Political Theory & Theology #Skystorians
In the past 12 months, we've welcomed historians based in (among others) Accounting, Education, English, Film Studies, Law, Media Studies, Modern Languages, Political Theory & Theology #Skystorians
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Our Postgraduate Virtual Open Day is this weekend🎉
We will be covering student life, employability, funding opportunities and more 🤩
Find out more about postgraduate study at Leeds by signing up now 👇
https://bit.ly/4psdQu8
We will be covering student life, employability, funding opportunities and more 🤩
Find out more about postgraduate study at Leeds by signing up now 👇
https://bit.ly/4psdQu8
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our Postgraduate Virtual Open Day is this weekend🎉
We will be covering student life, employability, funding opportunities and more 🤩
Find out more about postgraduate study at Leeds by signing up now 👇
https://bit.ly/4psdQu8
We will be covering student life, employability, funding opportunities and more 🤩
Find out more about postgraduate study at Leeds by signing up now 👇
https://bit.ly/4psdQu8
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🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial.
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial.
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
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'One of the programmes...closed entirely was on public policy, and the two women leading it left. Staff claim “there are no longer any women in research leadership positions”, which the institute did not respond to directly, though it stressed its commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.'
Alan Turing Institute staff decry ‘unjustified’ cuts to research
Internal documents detail extent of changes to projects and personnel at national AI institute
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Internal documents detail extent of changes to projects and personnel at national AI institute
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Alan Turing Institute staff decry ‘unjustified’ cuts to research - Research Professional News
Internal documents detail extent of changes to projects and personnel at national AI institute
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
'One of the programmes...closed entirely was on public policy, and the two women leading it left. Staff claim “there are no longer any women in research leadership positions”, which the institute did not respond to directly, though it stressed its commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.'
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Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
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Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies.
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies.
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
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here's your headline:
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
here's your headline:
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
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Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts
Imperial College London staff will down tools tomorrow in a fight for a fair pay award, the University and College Union (UCU) confirmed today
www.ucu.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
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Delighted to have contributed to the new issue of Filmblatt with an Ossi Oswalda filmography that I curated with Mary Hennessy & Philipp Stiasny! The issue also features a brilliant essay by @hennefem.bsky.social on an unmade Oswalda film! Long live Ossi Oswalda!
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Delighted to have contributed to the new issue of Filmblatt with an Ossi Oswalda filmography that I curated with Mary Hennessy & Philipp Stiasny! The issue also features a brilliant essay by @hennefem.bsky.social on an unmade Oswalda film! Long live Ossi Oswalda!
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We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).
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Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
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I’d love to see UUK, UCU, UCEA, the Russell group, the funding councils, research charities, hell pretty much every university stakeholder to stand together and say to the Govt in one voice - Stop fucking around with our universities.
You are destroying us, and you will miss us when we’re gone.
You are destroying us, and you will miss us when we’re gone.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’d love to see UUK, UCU, UCEA, the Russell group, the funding councils, research charities, hell pretty much every university stakeholder to stand together and say to the Govt in one voice - Stop fucking around with our universities.
You are destroying us, and you will miss us when we’re gone.
You are destroying us, and you will miss us when we’re gone.
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have we all considered that one reason that the chancellor thinks it’s a good idea to impose the international student levy is the relentless boosterism of certain parts of higher education leadership who continue to insist in the face of all evidence that international recruitment will grow forever
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
have we all considered that one reason that the chancellor thinks it’s a good idea to impose the international student levy is the relentless boosterism of certain parts of higher education leadership who continue to insist in the face of all evidence that international recruitment will grow forever
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Listening to a panel discussion with Jeremy Hunt describing Britain as having the most respected universities in the world, second to the US. The scale of the complacency is staggering. Stuff doesn’t stay being good because it’s always been good - you have to invest in and support national assets
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Listening to a panel discussion with Jeremy Hunt describing Britain as having the most respected universities in the world, second to the US. The scale of the complacency is staggering. Stuff doesn’t stay being good because it’s always been good - you have to invest in and support national assets
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Oh. But, I guess, yay that UUK finally discovered they had a voice and could actually use it to mention, politely, in passing, the utter destruction of one of the UK's major industries. Decade too late but ho hum.
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Oh. But, I guess, yay that UUK finally discovered they had a voice and could actually use it to mention, politely, in passing, the utter destruction of one of the UK's major industries. Decade too late but ho hum.
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'The sad fact is that, longer term, this deluge of negative publicity about the value of a degree...will inevitably move from being fodder for anti-HE journalists to actually driving changes in young people’s decision-making'. 3/3
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
'The sad fact is that, longer term, this deluge of negative publicity about the value of a degree...will inevitably move from being fodder for anti-HE journalists to actually driving changes in young people’s decision-making'. 3/3
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Very much looking forward to this week’s Board of Governors meeting, at which the VC and his cronies will, as usual, blame others while maintaining that we’re about to hit a gold mine although sadly a lot of colleagues won’t be here to share the loot.
'Despite these concerns, little positive news is expected for universities in the upcoming budget....the focus will...be on the proposed international student levy, which would result in universities being taxed on their income from overseas students.' 2/3
Universities receiving £6.4bn a year less for teaching students compared to a decade ago
New analysis from Universities UK (UUK) shows the scale of underfunding English universities face in teaching today’s home students, compared to ten years ago.
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Very much looking forward to this week’s Board of Governors meeting, at which the VC and his cronies will, as usual, blame others while maintaining that we’re about to hit a gold mine although sadly a lot of colleagues won’t be here to share the loot.
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'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
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And of course it affects domestic students too. Many courses won’t run without the income from overseas students. Universities are knowledge engines, driving our economy and raising our reputation overseas.
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
And of course it affects domestic students too. Many courses won’t run without the income from overseas students. Universities are knowledge engines, driving our economy and raising our reputation overseas.
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As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
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University managers were already saying that if the levy comes through, they can’t put the cost onto international students because it’s bad optics (YOU WOULD THINK THEY’D BE CONCERNED BY THE BAD MORALS OF IT), and that they will cut in operational costs and staff costs.
Thanks, Rachel.
Thanks, Rachel.
universities got a tiny fee rise that was immediately wiped out by the national insurance raises. they used international student fees to subsidise capped domestic fees and now that’s going to be taken away too. universities are going to collapse and thousands of jobs will go with each collapse.
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
University managers were already saying that if the levy comes through, they can’t put the cost onto international students because it’s bad optics (YOU WOULD THINK THEY’D BE CONCERNED BY THE BAD MORALS OF IT), and that they will cut in operational costs and staff costs.
Thanks, Rachel.
Thanks, Rachel.
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Of course. And it’s also local jobs for a lot of people who aren’t academics — there’s a tendency in Labour I think to assume that it’s just pretentious middle class people losing privileged positions, but my uni employs about 6,000 people and the vast majority of them aren’t lecturers.
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Of course. And it’s also local jobs for a lot of people who aren’t academics — there’s a tendency in Labour I think to assume that it’s just pretentious middle class people losing privileged positions, but my uni employs about 6,000 people and the vast majority of them aren’t lecturers.