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Dr Angela Gallagher

@angelatgallagher.bsky.social

Applied linguist, teacher, action researcher www.ecml.at/actionresearch, community gardener. Escapee from UKHE. Interested in languages, higher education, history. Londoner, Germanist, Francophile, #cfc & #cfcw fan.

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

To understand and counter disinformation, language skills, area studies expertise, historical knowledge and a wide range of arts, humanities & social science disciplines are requisite. SHAPE subjects are strategically vital for national interests. Is it strategic to let 'the market' shrink them?

Mapping SHAPE provision in UK higher education

This new project from the British Academy maps changing provision of SHAPE subjects in UK higher education institutions. It uses data to visually depict contractions and expansions in provision by a v...

thebritishacademy.ac.uk

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2mo ago

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

Queen Mary University of London@qmul.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Air pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

ft.com

Dr Angela Gallagher@angelatgallagher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interesting read: 'Languages education faces a “vicious circle”: as schools struggle to recruit and retain language teachers, provision becomes more limited...'

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For A level results day, the British Academy has looked at two decades of data on take-up of SHAPE subjects across the UK. Although SHAPE subjects still make up the majority of entries, there is an evolving picture beneath that headline figure. Read the full analysis here: https://bit.ly/4xE87FQ

Dr Angela Gallagher@angelatgallagher.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Grim read: 'The British Academy’s analysis also found that regional cold spots were accelerating, and some subjects were now virtually impossible to access at less selective universities'

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The disastrous financial situation of Britain's universities - far worse than prospective students or parents have been allowed to know - will be one of *the* issues of the next 18 months to two years. The government doesn't even know this yet. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2

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Dr Angela Gallagher@angelatgallagher.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Good read, lots on humanities & adversarial management culture: 'A track record of having slashed a budget and made staff redundant at one university becomes a prime recommendation for appointment at another'

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is an institution to watch if you're thinking about the UK HE crisis. 'Arden University, which obtained degree-granting powers in 2014, may be the biggest UK university you’ve never heard of.' 1/3

Jonathan Kasstan@jrkasstan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“We are concerned about the growing risk of geographic and subjectbased “cold-spots”, affecting areas and disciplines such as music and modern languages.” #Nottingham is a regional behemoth for the study of #languages - this is so stupid and short sighted publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...

Higher Education and Funding: Threat of Insolvency and International Students

Report of the Education Committee

publications.parliament.uk

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Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Inequality kills. People in the wealthiest UK areas have 20 more years of good health than those in the poorest. Healthy life expectancy for Richmond upon Thames man 69.3 yrs, woman 70.3 yrs. Man in Blackpool 50.9 years; woman in Hartlepool 51.2 years. Deaths rising among 25- to 49-year-olds.

People in UK spend fewer years in good health than a decade ago, study finds

Exclusive: Health Foundation says Britain is ‘going backwards’ compared with most other rich countries

theguardian.com

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines. And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3

UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest

‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

timeshighereducation.com

Sophie Pedder@sophiepedder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

These were mayoral 🇫🇷 elections, so any national extrapolation is of course hazardous. But if you go by voting in towns with > 100,000 population, one cautious conclusion from last night’s voting is this : the broad non-populist centre can hold

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

'The impact of this policy will be particularly severe for women. In Afghanistan, girls have been excluded from secondary education and women from higher education for over four years.' 1/2

Why the Government should rethink the emergency visa brake on study visas - HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Sasha Roseneil, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Sussex. The UK Government’s recent announcement of an ‘emergency visa brake’ on study visas for university...

hepi.ac.uk

Dr Angela Gallagher@angelatgallagher.bsky.social · 7mo ago

'Students from affluent backgrounds are rarely required to justify their curiosity so narrowly – they are trusted to enjoy learning and to assume that things will work out – while state-educated students are often asked to translate interest into employability before they are allowed to pursue it'

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

'Maintenance support tied to “priority courses” and proposals to withdraw funding from degrees deemed insufficiently lucrative, do more than shape university provision. They send a cultural message about which kinds of thinking are worth public investment — and for whom.'