Elizabeth Elliott
@elizabethelliott.bsky.social
Medieval literature, history of emotion and medievalism. UCU rep. She/her
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May we interest students in a little Dispute With The Secretary Of State? Because building the sector on the ever-increasing life-long debt of students really isn’t the only or ethical choice. www.universityrankandfile.org.uk/campaigns/di... #UKHE
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
May we interest students in a little Dispute With The Secretary Of State? Because building the sector on the ever-increasing life-long debt of students really isn’t the only or ethical choice. www.universityrankandfile.org.uk/campaigns/di... #UKHE
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yeah. Why are those university chairs marking their own homework though?
If you're looking for some casestudies to develop and staff to talk with, give us a ring.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/smith-g...
If you're looking for some casestudies to develop and staff to talk with, give us a ring.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/smith-g...
![Referencing a report released by the Office for Students earlier this month that said universities had been “overly optimistic” in their forecasts and predicted 45 per cent of the sector may report financial deficits this year, Smith said there had been a “failure to forecast” and “recognise risk”.
The Committee of University Chairs, which represents UK university governing bodies, is currently reviewing higher education governance – work Smith described as “important”.
“I think all institutions…should be thinking about who they have available to them and how they’re using them to make sure that they are doing that strategic planning that we’ve now put the sector in a position to do [by uplifting tuition fees], but also understanding risk and other challenges,” she said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45kqxhsal7x7tzmjmvaddfi/bafkreia3xp4e23rmqx2pjozvgekydzsk5ei33m5qol62szdfjq5bftibe4@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
yeah. Why are those university chairs marking their own homework though?
If you're looking for some casestudies to develop and staff to talk with, give us a ring.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/smith-g...
If you're looking for some casestudies to develop and staff to talk with, give us a ring.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/smith-g...
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
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"exiting the market" is a fun euphemism for thousands of students left without a school, thousands of people put out of work, entire local economies destroyed, and priceless knowledge lost.
I never thought it would be possible to have a stupider university policy than the Tories, but Labour schooled me.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told
Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"exiting the market" is a fun euphemism for thousands of students left without a school, thousands of people put out of work, entire local economies destroyed, and priceless knowledge lost.
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The university sector in the UK brings c. £265 *billion* to the economy. A sector that is struggling, and so instead of helping and contributing to growth, the plan is to fuck the sector just a tad more.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The university sector in the UK brings c. £265 *billion* to the economy. A sector that is struggling, and so instead of helping and contributing to growth, the plan is to fuck the sector just a tad more.
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Instead of a broad-based tax rise, Reeves has chosen to attack the UK‘s main export.
It‘s almost like Reeves is incapable of seeing beyond the bottom of the spreadsheet…
It‘s almost like Reeves is incapable of seeing beyond the bottom of the spreadsheet…
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Instead of a broad-based tax rise, Reeves has chosen to attack the UK‘s main export.
It‘s almost like Reeves is incapable of seeing beyond the bottom of the spreadsheet…
It‘s almost like Reeves is incapable of seeing beyond the bottom of the spreadsheet…
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An absolutely pitiful amount of money in the context of a national budget, but utterly devastating on the ground for the HE sector
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
An absolutely pitiful amount of money in the context of a national budget, but utterly devastating on the ground for the HE sector
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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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The list goes on. Even for a government with - at best - an incredibly cynical view of both higher education and post-92 institutions, this should be the stuff of basic policy making. What do they think is going to replace this?
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The list goes on. Even for a government with - at best - an incredibly cynical view of both higher education and post-92 institutions, this should be the stuff of basic policy making. What do they think is going to replace this?
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My go-to example of this is the University of Lancashire, which has over 25,000 students and 3,000 staff primarily in Preston and Burnley. What happens if institutions like that go under, do we think?
I don't think (successive) governments who ignore the financial crisis in universities really realise what it will look like in cities, including northern cities like mine, if the higher education sector collapses. Newcastle's economy is *really fucking really* propped up by students
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
My go-to example of this is the University of Lancashire, which has over 25,000 students and 3,000 staff primarily in Preston and Burnley. What happens if institutions like that go under, do we think?
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I don't think (successive) governments who ignore the financial crisis in universities really realise what it will look like in cities, including northern cities like mine, if the higher education sector collapses. Newcastle's economy is *really fucking really* propped up by students
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I don't think (successive) governments who ignore the financial crisis in universities really realise what it will look like in cities, including northern cities like mine, if the higher education sector collapses. Newcastle's economy is *really fucking really* propped up by students
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*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
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Props to the first journalist who asks how international students are actually doing while being turned into a political football.
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Props to the first journalist who asks how international students are actually doing while being turned into a political football.
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
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The government has been warned, repeatedly and loudly, about the house of cards that is higher education funding. And their response has been first to ignore it, and then to propose action that will actively make things worse.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The government has been warned, repeatedly and loudly, about the house of cards that is higher education funding. And their response has been first to ignore it, and then to propose action that will actively make things worse.
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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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Moved to the UK also 15 years ago, also attracted by the awesomeness of its university sector.
The speed with which something built over generations has been trashed by one MBA-brained cohort is absolutely mindboggling.
The speed with which something built over generations has been trashed by one MBA-brained cohort is absolutely mindboggling.
It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Moved to the UK also 15 years ago, also attracted by the awesomeness of its university sector.
The speed with which something built over generations has been trashed by one MBA-brained cohort is absolutely mindboggling.
The speed with which something built over generations has been trashed by one MBA-brained cohort is absolutely mindboggling.
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It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are
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University of Glasgow Library has a remarkably generous visiting research fellowship scheme - come hang out with me in Glasgow! Get funded! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research Fellows
www.gla.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
University of Glasgow Library has a remarkably generous visiting research fellowship scheme - come hang out with me in Glasgow! Get funded! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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For the USHE crowd, fathom this: the systemic pattern in UKHE the past few years has been to CUT the best, most award-winning, most-grant-getting, most-publishing programs.
The cuts at Leicester University are also targeting some of our top REF (and NSS) performers: History; Film Studies; Chemistry; Modern Languages; Geography, Geology & Environment
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For the USHE crowd, fathom this: the systemic pattern in UKHE the past few years has been to CUT the best, most award-winning, most-grant-getting, most-publishing programs.
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Part 7/7 is in people’s inboxes today!
That’s a wrap on “A Road Less Taken.” I hope y’all enjoyed it, got a glimpse into what @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social offers, & had a good National Book Week wherever you happen to be!
This was part 6: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
That’s a wrap on “A Road Less Taken.” I hope y’all enjoyed it, got a glimpse into what @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social offers, & had a good National Book Week wherever you happen to be!
This was part 6: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Part 7/7 is in people’s inboxes today!
That’s a wrap on “A Road Less Taken.” I hope y’all enjoyed it, got a glimpse into what @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social offers, & had a good National Book Week wherever you happen to be!
This was part 6: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
That’s a wrap on “A Road Less Taken.” I hope y’all enjoyed it, got a glimpse into what @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social offers, & had a good National Book Week wherever you happen to be!
This was part 6: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
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This is a pattern that pervades the post REF2021 era. See also for example Kent, or at UoA level History, where the top 4 performing UoAs have all faced significant redundancies after their high results.
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a pattern that pervades the post REF2021 era. See also for example Kent, or at UoA level History, where the top 4 performing UoAs have all faced significant redundancies after their high results.
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
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The drive for ‘specialisation’ in what universities are ’good at’ is seldom going to translate in investment in the humanities, isn’t it?
Places that are going everything right & all that’s demanded of them are still being punished. And that alone tells you we need a new (less arbitrary) system.
Places that are going everything right & all that’s demanded of them are still being punished. And that alone tells you we need a new (less arbitrary) system.
This is a pattern that pervades the post REF2021 era. See also for example Kent, or at UoA level History, where the top 4 performing UoAs have all faced significant redundancies after their high results.
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The drive for ‘specialisation’ in what universities are ’good at’ is seldom going to translate in investment in the humanities, isn’t it?
Places that are going everything right & all that’s demanded of them are still being punished. And that alone tells you we need a new (less arbitrary) system.
Places that are going everything right & all that’s demanded of them are still being punished. And that alone tells you we need a new (less arbitrary) system.
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'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2
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The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.