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Gawen Jenkin
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Prof of Applied Geology, Middle England university. Sustainable mineral resources for the green transition. Geology, life, Kernow 〓〓.

Views personal and do not represent my employers.
Makes me want to run out and buy a flat cap!
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
JFC!
So are university leaders interested in doing the right thing to protect education in this country - or are they just interested in keeping their well paid positions regardless?

🤔
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I’m seeing a lot of students missing classes not because they can’t be bothered to show up but because it clashes with the hours of the paid job they need to survive 😢
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We have to walk past this irksome sign daily while being at risk of redundancy.
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Ha I read that first as “appalling measures” …
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Half an hour of brilliant cutting edge comedy beamed into your house once a week for free
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@shockatadam.bsky.social

Some useful figures here about the value of universities to regional communities.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I’ve yet to meet a (geology) student who has chosen us for the shiny buildings.

Anyway, please sign our petition to save Geology and Geography at Leicester!

#academicsky #geoscience ⚒️

www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is clearly a structural problem - which the govt needs to address (but seems to want to ignore).

Local challenges not helped by institutions enthusiastically taking out mortgages for shiny buildings - end result staff pay the price with their jobs, provision is diminished, bad for U.K.
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Thank you ✊

And sadly decimated is actually understating it 😭
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Thanks Col - from all of us - staff and students. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM